Don’t be left on base
Those who like baseball learn to enjoy every aspect of the game. Though I enjoy a good defensive play, I prefer when my favorite team is at bat; after all, the team can’t win unless it makes runs. There are different ways to make runs: hits, doubles, triples, homers, base on balls, reach on error or hit by pitch. It doesn’t matter how the team makes the runs as long as at the end of the game your favorite team has more runs that the other team.
Every player on the team needs to try to get on base or advance those players already on base. The team can fill the bases in every single inning, but apart from improving the batting average, it won’t mean anything unless those men on base are able to reach home.
The same principle can be applied to our lives. We can enjoy every single blessing we receive from God, growing closer to Him with every experience. But no matter how many blessings we receive, it will go all to waste unless we are able to make it to our heavenly home.
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. – 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Don’t be left on base.
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