Swing From The Heels
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Matthew 6:33
Baseball is a difficult sport. When you think of the definition of success with regard to the game of baseball you come to understand that success is a relative term. The success metrics for which a baseball players’ career are measured by are significantly lower than compared to other sports. In fact, a major league baseball player who gets a hit just 30% of the time throughout his career, that’s 3 hits for every 10 at bats will more than likely than not end up in Cooperstown, baseball’s Hall of Fame.
The apostle Paul writes regarding God’s idea of success when he writes regarding the fruit of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” Living a Spirit controlled and empowered life is not only God’s will for our lives, it is also the means to the end, a picture of what a successful life looks like. The fruit of God’s Spirit cannot be achieved by direct pursuit, the fruit of God’s Spirit in our lives is a by-product of remaining connected to Jesus, by abiding in Him. Jesus said it best, “a part from Me you can do nothing.”
God’s definition of success is measured then exclusively by our surrender to His will not our personal achievements. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray His instructions were clear, “Not my will but Thine be done.” The statement “successful people do consistently what others do occasionally” is true. Those of us who place our hope and trust in Jesus will regardless of how many times we may strike out will in the end have our names added to God’s Hall of Faith. So swing for the fence today every chance you get knowing…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:8-10
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