Have you ever just messed up? Maybe it was that you didn’t do what you were supposed to do… or simply did it wrong… or maybe just did the wrong thing? Athletes deal with this all the time… sometimes it is just not their night…
It seemed that way the other night in the NBA playoffs when Steph Curry was held scoreless in the first half of his game… he was an “0-for” (for non-athletes that means he hit zero of his shots.) It was a very “un-Steph-like” performance… most would be tempted to dwell on this failure at halftime, but Steph is a shooter, and shooters shoot! They must have a short memory that always trust the next one is going in. Steph responded by scoring 33 points in the second half and leading his team to victory.
Bottom line is that for an athlete, one is defined by past preparation… not by past failures. Steph has taken millions of shots over his life to prepare for his stage… and refused to be defined by 5 missed shots in a half.
Starting now preparing to succeed and do not be defined by past mistakes, be refined by them. They can be a great education in what we are doing wrong… maybe it was wrong technique… being in the wrong place… whatever…
Isaiah 43:18-19 (The Message) “Forget about what has happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present, I’m about to do something brand-new. I’m bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.”
God is at work in your life… let Him take lead… don’t be defined by who you were… be refined into the new you!
Philippians 1:6 (NKJV) Being confident of this very thing, that He who begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 (NKJV) Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Keep going! Keep serving! (Even if mistakes have been made!) Remember you must take the shot to score…
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