What type of player are you when things aren’t going your way? Maybe you are not performing as well as you hoped. Maybe you feel you are getting a raw deal? Maybe your teammates are not pulling their weight. Maybe you don’t feel the fans are encouraging you enough.
And I am not just talking about in sports. In life we have the same type of frustrations. And like in sports we need to ask what type of players we are.
John Wooden made an observation that sports don’t just build character, they also reveal character. I have mentioned this over the years in these devotions yet I feel it needs to be repeated.
The fact is that any player (on the court or in life) can show a great attitude when thing are going well. Yet to be a person that is able to have a great attitude in the difficult times is a peculiar thing.
The thing that makes it peculiar is that it is not natural. A person needs to be led by the Spirit in order to show the self-control we are talking about. And being led by the Spirit is not just about avoiding bad sin. It is a transformation of our attitudes. (Look at the list of the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23)
When it is all said and done the truth will come out in the rough times about what type of player you are! Jesus said it even more bluntly than John Wooden.
Luke 645 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
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