Persevere to the End

Theme: Persevere to the End

Verse: Romans 5:4

It’s appropriate that we have a devotional about on this subject today. Two sports seasons that are all about perseverance take center stage this weekend. One is ending and one is just beginning.  

You may have heard something about a couple of college basketball tournaments going on the past couple of weeks.  These are all about perseverance.  The student-athletes play approximately 30 games over 4 months to qualify for the tournament. Then, in the span of about 17 days, need to win 6 (or for some, 7) more games against the best competition to be declared the champion. It’s a grueling road!

Then, there is baseball. This weekend marks the start of the 162-game season for 30 MLB teams. Another arduous journey that takes teams from coast to coast and from north to south severaltimes until October. Then, a handful get to play on to get to the end.

Both these seasons present obstacles to the participants, and that is not unlike our lives. We are all human with weaknesses causing us to fall short of God’s standard for our lives.  Yet, He loves us unconditionally! He loves us even when our life gets in the way, and we are incapable or unwilling to love him back.

When we find our horizontal relationships (earthly ones) are in disarray consider that there may be something to fix in our vertical relationship (with our Heavenly Father).

Have a great week! 

Go Rays! Go Cards!

Adapted from They Will Run and Not Grow Weary by David Alan Black