Saturday, October 22, 2016

LIFE’S WINNING EDGE


LIFE’S WINNING EDGE

1 Corinthians 9:24-25           
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.


Y.A. Tittle, the great quarterback who played for the San Francisco Forty-Niners and later for the New York Giants, learned early in his high school years the importance of getting every winning edge he could get in order to play good football. His high school coach wanted a winning team, and this meant one thing – the need for self-control in all things.

Later in his career, during a crucial game against the Detroit Lions, San Francisco was behind, 17-14. With only a few minutes left, Y.A. faked two passes and ran the ball for the winning touchdown. Without self-control such a last-minute victory would not have been possible.

 When you watch a quarterback, you think of self-control. When the pressure is on, everything depends upon the quarterback because he is the one who calls the plays and controls the game. If you want to be a successful athlete, you need to have control over all your emotions. Self-control is what gives us life’s winning edge. The question is: Am I going to control life, or is it going to control me?

May God help us not to be too busy to take advantage of spare hours in which to develop our physical, mental and spiritual abilities for His glory.


  

Meditations for Servicemen, By William E. Parsons, Jr., pgs. 29-30.

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