To Be...Confident in Christ
Loving spending time with our NFL quarterback and some of our family in New Orleans.
We've loved this one since the day he was born and his love for the Lord exudes from his heart!
We've loved this one since the day he was born and his love for the Lord exudes from his heart!
December 28
Being a quarterback at any level takes confidence. I've watched this particular QB train hard since he was a youngster. Our ten year old grandson plays little league, so to get to have dinner with an NFL football player was quite the Christmas gift.
This young man has learned at the high school, college and professional levels that every new program presents adjustments and a continual commitment to learning. Isn't our faith a lot like that?
Life is constantly changing and forever having us face new scenarios that require us to stop and seek the Lord with a heart willing to learn and adjust before we continue. As in the game of football, we are not out there alone, it's a team effort. Part of the learning process is trusting our teammates and being confident in Christ, as our coach, that others have an important role in successfully carrying out God's game plan.
In life, like football, we encounter moments where we need a time out or we need to take a knee. There are game plans where we are instructed to run and others when we are told to pass the ball of life to someone else to carry forward. The key to finishing strong is being confident in Christ as our coach, the One who has gone before us and made a way for victory! The One who equips us and in whose strength we persevere. He will never leave or forsake us on the playing field of life.
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave your nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6
Paul taught this concept of having confidence in Christ, not ourselves, to the Philippians. He had learned this first hand. "Rejoice in the Lord!...For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh."
Philippians 3:1, 3.
It is a gift from God to have confidence in Christ.
Being a quarterback at any level takes confidence. I've watched this particular QB train hard since he was a youngster. Our ten year old grandson plays little league, so to get to have dinner with an NFL football player was quite the Christmas gift.
This young man has learned at the high school, college and professional levels that every new program presents adjustments and a continual commitment to learning. Isn't our faith a lot like that?
Life is constantly changing and forever having us face new scenarios that require us to stop and seek the Lord with a heart willing to learn and adjust before we continue. As in the game of football, we are not out there alone, it's a team effort. Part of the learning process is trusting our teammates and being confident in Christ, as our coach, that others have an important role in successfully carrying out God's game plan.
In life, like football, we encounter moments where we need a time out or we need to take a knee. There are game plans where we are instructed to run and others when we are told to pass the ball of life to someone else to carry forward. The key to finishing strong is being confident in Christ as our coach, the One who has gone before us and made a way for victory! The One who equips us and in whose strength we persevere. He will never leave or forsake us on the playing field of life.
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave your nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6
Paul taught this concept of having confidence in Christ, not ourselves, to the Philippians. He had learned this first hand. "Rejoice in the Lord!...For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh."
Philippians 3:1, 3.
It is a gift from God to have confidence in Christ.
