Category: Daily Post

Love this quote I just read this morning from the quotable Spurgeon.

“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”

Yeah, I guess so.  So lets choose easy days of pancakes or expecting the hard junk that comes with the rest of life.  Expect it, embrace it and make it work.

If we endure, we will also reign with him;  2 Timothy 2:12

Last night the boys and I went to see “Edge of Tomorrow”.  I had previously sworn off Tom Cruise movies, so I was quite surprised when his face showed up in the first minute. Argh.  I really had no idea what I was about to see.  So, without spoiling this movie, it’s basically Groundhog Day with guns.  Not bad, but I wish I hadn’t broken my Tom Cruise avoidance vow! 🙂

Despite that, it did make me wonder if there was a day in my life that I wish I could have lived over and over until I got it right.  It’s an interesting and thought-provoking question, which at this point has no answer for me.  Maybe I will get to live today over and over until I have an answer?

How about you?  Is there a day in your life that you wish you could redo and redo until you reach the proper conclusion?

In the real world, we have no time controlling aliens to reset time. It just marches forward.   So as we say every Friday, take a marble out and spend it wisely this weekend.  You really only get one shoot at June 21 and 22 2014.  No redos or resets.  Get to work!

Last Sunday when I was driving a way I had not been before I allowed Google Maps to lead me through a part of central Kentucky. I turned off the well-known interstate at sunset. The sun faded over the hills as my recognition of where I was and the roads I was traveling faded. Onward I pressed. The roads became narrower, less traveled and full of  curves.  Signs that said things like “Break in Pavement Ahead” appeared. In my mind the road became darker and populated with all sorts of things and people you don’t want to see at night. And my confidence in the ability of my vehicle to round the next turn or the climb the next hill weakened.

“I’m going to break down and be stranded out here in the middle of no where Kentucky” I thought to myself.

Just went I thought the next turn would lead me on to a small dirt road to nowhere I come upon an intersection with a well-traveled and known state highway!  The effort had been rewarded, and the anxiety was fruitless.

I am not comparing trust in Google Maps with trust with God, however, I think you can see the connection to our lives.  We want to let the Lord lead us, but we freak out when things are not how we thought they might be.  Turning over the control to the Creator can be scary, but I think he knows the way.  And the result will be better than you expected!

I have a case of World Cup Fever going on right now. So I wondered, if the game of soccer was mentioned in the great text. So, I went to The Google to see what it said and found some interesting stuff.

First, a list of bible verses about soccer.

Then, pins that combine soccer and the Bible.

And then, the soccer bible and the SoccerBible on Twitter! ( those are not really related) and even a Soccer Bible Camp.

But in the end, I still come back to one of my favorite verses when the mix of athletics and spirituality are combined.

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control,[a] lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

Enjoy the World Cup, but stay focused on the imperishable prize!