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An
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Great
Coach During
the days that Knute Rockne was football coach for
Notre Dame, a sports columnist
in a South Bend newspaper earned the reputation
as the meanest,
most callous writer in the country. The anonymous writer, who knew Notre Dame well, wrote about
the team's weaknesses.
He pointed out the mistakes of individual
players. He
told about those who were lazy, about those who broke
training and didn't discipline themselves.
Of course, this column made the players roaring
mad. The
truth hurt and players complained to Coach Rockne. He
listened with sympathy but said he could not stop the
writer from publishing those articles. He advised that
the only thing players could do was to go out and play
the game so well that they would prove him wrong. Later
it became known that the writer of the column was the
coach himself. As
coach of the team he was best acquainted with their
weaknesses. The
critical column was his ingenuous device to develop a
better team!* Similarly,
the Scriptures sometimes speak so sharply about us it
is uncomfortable.
But God tells the TRUTH because He LOVES us and
wants to "For
the Word of God is ALIVE, and POWERFUL,,, and
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12). Through
His Word, God reveals to us our "mistakes"
and our "weaknesses" Are YOU on the Winner’s side? God bless you, David A. Sargent / Minister Church of Christ at Creekwood * Weekly Bulletin COC Spring Valley, CA. To Subscribe to "Living Water" send a blank e-mail to:
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