Given March 2010
In sports, once you’re on the team, you’re taken through a regimented series of activities designed to develop you physically and mentally to the point where you can be effective as a team member and successful against your opponent. The training regime is demanding and difficult but those who dedicate themselves to the cause, making the necessary sacrifices, will increase their skills and reap the rewards. Some drop out before the game; they aren’t willing to pay the price. Some make it to the game but are unsuccessful and require more training. But the coach is always there to guide the willing and obedient to success.
In life, once you’re on God’s team, you have the opportunity to go through a plan designed to develop you mentally and spiritually to the point where you can be effective as a Christian and successful against the enemy. Each is given a measure of faith, (Romans 12:3), and all have the potential to be great but that faith must be exercised, used, and developed. However, the training plan is demanding, sacrifices must be made, and each member must dedicate themselves totally to the coach and the cause. Some do not have what it takes; (When Gideon was choosing his army to go into battle, God said to tell the men, “Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead. So twenty-two thousand men left,”, Judges 7.)
Then when we reach a certain level, according to our Master, we are tested and tried, “The purpose of these troubles is to test your faith as fire tests how genuine gold is.” (1 Peter 1:7 God’s Word translation). If we pass the test, we move up to the next level, “And we all…are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.” (2 Corinthians 3:18, ESV). If we fail the test the Master will pick us up, dust us off, and take us back to the training facility until we’re ready to be tested again. And if we persist, we will become strong, skilled, and feared by the enemy, ready to be a force in the Kingdom of God.
Are you ready to be tested? Are you want to go to the next level? Do you want to please the Coach? Be blessed.
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