It seems that there may be an undefeated season here or there.....but few undefeated careers. I watched about fifteen minutes of a college football game last night....because my son and grandson were somewhere in that vast throng of fans. I know what it is like to follow a college football or basketball team....or an NFL team....or an MLB team.....or an NHL team.
So many times back in those years....it was as if I were the coach....and my team would win a game easily....but the big game was the next week....and I would say to the team in my dream world....don't get overconfident! There were other times when my team might be undefeated....and a mediocre team was coming into our stadium....and I would worry....don't take this team lightly! And we would then get upset. It was frustrating....and it is part of the reason that I gave all of that stuff up.
There was a baseball player way back when....who was very good. He was a great hitter and fielder. He hit 300 seven times in his career! But one single play defined that career...in a World Series game....where a slow ground ball rolled past him as he took his eye off of it. He suffered a lot of ridicule after that....this great ball player....but he handled it graciously....and died relatively young....he was about my age....and went to be with his Lord and Savior and King. I know very little about him so I don't know if he was a Christian before his famous error....or if that error led him to being a Christian.
So this....famous really.....Christian pastor and author and teacher....that I posted on in the post below this....somewhere took his eye off the ball....and will pay for that.....I'll use the word 'error'....the rest of his life. Had he not been on that grand stage.....had he not been a 'general' so to speak.....had he not first had the courage to attempt to pierce the darkness....as a powerful voice for the gospel....he might not have had a target on him from the evil one?
I only know that a warrior has fallen severely wounded.....and I will pray for mercy upon him....and that the rest of us will learn from this....that we might be shaken to the very core....realizing the weakness of our mortality....and thus be even more vigilant.....even more sober.....even more the wise traveler....looking to the left and the right for wolves....and checking our perimeter for any unprotected areas.
So many times back in those years....it was as if I were the coach....and my team would win a game easily....but the big game was the next week....and I would say to the team in my dream world....don't get overconfident! There were other times when my team might be undefeated....and a mediocre team was coming into our stadium....and I would worry....don't take this team lightly! And we would then get upset. It was frustrating....and it is part of the reason that I gave all of that stuff up.
There was a baseball player way back when....who was very good. He was a great hitter and fielder. He hit 300 seven times in his career! But one single play defined that career...in a World Series game....where a slow ground ball rolled past him as he took his eye off of it. He suffered a lot of ridicule after that....this great ball player....but he handled it graciously....and died relatively young....he was about my age....and went to be with his Lord and Savior and King. I know very little about him so I don't know if he was a Christian before his famous error....or if that error led him to being a Christian.
So this....famous really.....Christian pastor and author and teacher....that I posted on in the post below this....somewhere took his eye off the ball....and will pay for that.....I'll use the word 'error'....the rest of his life. Had he not been on that grand stage.....had he not been a 'general' so to speak.....had he not first had the courage to attempt to pierce the darkness....as a powerful voice for the gospel....he might not have had a target on him from the evil one?
I only know that a warrior has fallen severely wounded.....and I will pray for mercy upon him....and that the rest of us will learn from this....that we might be shaken to the very core....realizing the weakness of our mortality....and thus be even more vigilant.....even more sober.....even more the wise traveler....looking to the left and the right for wolves....and checking our perimeter for any unprotected areas.
