Mike Adams made his debut with the Rangers Tuesday night and it was a bit underwhelming. Now, I don't have a clue what it is like to pitch in the rain in your debut after a team gave up some of it's best prospects for you and I guess I can understand that the weather and nerves might throw you off your game a bit but this guy is supposed to be Superman and I was expecting 3 outs with 2 pitches. Don't ask me how he would do that but it's what I expected. Better luck next time Mike.
My discipleship is a bit like Mike Adams. My Lord gave his best player for me and often I come out and serve up meatballs to the enemy that he can hit out of the park. The good part is that just like Adams will get to go back out on the field and show what he can do, God will let me try again because he loves me so much. I read a blog the yesterday that reminded me that God is love. Not that God loves to love or likes to love and wants to love. GOD IS LOVE. If he's love and I'm not loving, then who do I look like? If I'm not living as love, that's when I'm serving up hanging curveballs and fastballs that are dead-red across the plate. It's when I live in love that I am walking arm-in-arm with my Lord and nothing can hurt me, nothing can beat me because he is living through me.
God, be patient as I try to walk in your ways and to love those who don't love me, those who aren't loved by the world, those who seemingly try to be unlovable and those who need to experience your love so they will have hope.
Grace and peace to you.
1 comment:
Great thoughts brother. I pray we can both be 5 pitch pitchers for God and always have our "good stuff"!!
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