So have you ever been faced with a task that you failed at in the past? If you played or are playing any form of sports this verse is great for you. I can gaurantee that if you play any type of sports you have faced a failure and had to stare it right in the face.
I think baseball/softball are some of the toughest sports to face failures in. You can get in a hitting slump that can last more than a few weeks at times and the end seems to be no where in sight. You go to the plate a hitter, ready to punish any pitch that comes your way. Then, it happens you strike out a few times, pop out or just don't hit the ball well at all. You start in your mind to doubt your abilities and then you start looking at your mechanics. you wonder if something needs to change when in reality it is mostly in your head. No one is perfect, in fact the great hitters in baseball only hit .300. That means that they get a hit 3 out of every 10 at bats. That's 7 failures to every 3 hits. If you play that math over into life we are going to have to focus on God to get through the 7 failures for sure.
Philippians 3:13-14 "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus"
Paul says in his own way that he is throwing the past away and looking to the future. We need to admit when we sin, when we fall short and when we are no where close to the Christian we should be. We need to confess those times directly to God and do everything we can to set ourselves up to not do it again. Then, we focus on tomorrow not yesterday. The best analogy for this is that we can't drive to work only looking in the rear view mirror. Well, we can't walk through life only looking at our past.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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