Being the child of a coach can be rough. I remember
hearing people say that I was only starting in baseball because my dad was the
coach. I have often heard people claim favoritism when coaches’ kids start in
front of their kids.
There are benefits to being a coach’s kid. The player
should get a better understanding of the game. The player can talk with the
coach on a regular basis to see what the coach wants or what the coach sees in
him or her. Yet favoritism on playing time should not be one of the benefits.
I do often see this improper benefit in the case of
travel sports. Often the travel team is put together to provide an arena for a
coach’s kid to get to play. And far too often there are kids that are on the
same team, working just as harder or maybe even harder, and they are relegated
to being bench players or to play out of position so the coach’s kid can shine…
In a similar fashion there are some that teach or think
that as children of God we should get favoritism. Although I agree that we have
God’s favor on our lives, I don’t see promises that we, as believers, are
immune to the heartaches and discomforts of the game of life. In fact I see
that we tend to face all the same struggles of illness, pain, suffering
hardship, etc. And God doesn’t always choose to fix the problem. He often just
asks us to trust and rest in Him. He wants us during these times, “being the Coach’s child,” to “get a better
understanding of the game” and to take
advantage of “getting to talk with the Coach on a regular basis to see what the
Coach wants or what the Coach sees.”
We have the promise that God will be a refuge or a hiding
place. We see the promise of comfort in the midst of troubles. (We see the
promise that there will be struggles.)
I believe one of the greatest witnesses we have is a life
that is resting in this hope in spite of what the world/circumstances
bring. We, as believers, are children of
God. We do have His favor.
Read Psalm 46 this week!
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