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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
make us ALL winners (2 Pet 3:9).
He knows that we cannot win unless we
discipline ourselves to obey His rules of life (1 Sam
15:22).
"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"
– our SINS.
In our sins, we are defeated already.
But God also informs us how to live
victoriously over sin through His Son, Jesus Christ,
Who won the victory for us when He died on the cross
so that we might have the forgiveness of our sins.
{IF}
we align ourselves with Him through believing
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), repenting
of our sins (Acts 17:30-31), confessing
Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), being baptized
(immersed) for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:38;
22:16), AND faithfully follow His commands (1 John
1:7), {THEN}
we, too, can share in GREAT victory over SIN.
Are
YOU
on the Winner’s side?
God bless you,
David
A. Sargent /
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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