Improving or Escaping?
Another Day Along the Way
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Another day,
"I don't want to go ring-chasing, as I call it; you know, going to a team that's already pretty established and trying to win a ring with them. I want to stay with the Cavs and build a champion."
("Down the Road," LeBron James, ESPN The Magazine, 1/16/06, p. 42)
We rarely hear such confessions these days. We crave victory, pleasure, and success. When they elude us, we run. Not up the court to dunk or toward a conflict to bring solutions. Not playing tough defense or planning a new strategy.
Instead, we run away and change jerseys, choosing to join the team of those who are already champions.
Rather than enduring and improving while experiencing personal character growth, we exit. We fail to realize the lessons of, and life of, endurance.
Do not deny or avoid disappointments and weaknesses. Face them. Analyze them. Learn from them. And work to make things better.
David didn't let Goliath's size provide him a valid excuse for defeat. He won. Paul the Apostle did not let prison and punishment persuade him to leave his new team. He rejoiced and changed the world.
Rather than ring-chasing, let us stay with our "Cavs" and build a champion.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
(1 Thessalonians 5:11, NIV)
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Another day,
"I don't want to go ring-chasing, as I call it; you know, going to a team that's already pretty established and trying to win a ring with them. I want to stay with the Cavs and build a champion."
("Down the Road," LeBron James, ESPN The Magazine, 1/16/06, p. 42)
We rarely hear such confessions these days. We crave victory, pleasure, and success. When they elude us, we run. Not up the court to dunk or toward a conflict to bring solutions. Not playing tough defense or planning a new strategy.
Instead, we run away and change jerseys, choosing to join the team of those who are already champions.
Rather than enduring and improving while experiencing personal character growth, we exit. We fail to realize the lessons of, and life of, endurance.
Do not deny or avoid disappointments and weaknesses. Face them. Analyze them. Learn from them. And work to make things better.
David didn't let Goliath's size provide him a valid excuse for defeat. He won. Paul the Apostle did not let prison and punishment persuade him to leave his new team. He rejoiced and changed the world.
Rather than ring-chasing, let us stay with our "Cavs" and build a champion.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
(1 Thessalonians 5:11, NIV)
1 Comments:
Praise God!! As I read from another author today, God wants us to be a part of the journey. He wants us to fight the good fight. He wants us to have the satisfaction of knowing that we were are the victors in a battle that wasn't easy.
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