Good Morning All,
Yesterday, in between church services, my second oldest son’s baseball team (of which I coach) had a make-up game. It was versus the number one team in our league… Most of the players on our team have never played before, and in reality, early in the season they surely did not fair too well. Nevertheless they were having fun and that is what it is about. Lately, however, our team has really came together, we won against another team in our league that beat us 23-3 before. Even so, going into yesterday’s game, no one really counted on the fact that we would or even could win. All that changed after the 1st inning. We had a tremendous game, both teams enjoyed themselves, we exercised good sportsmanship, prayed before the game together and really had a great time. When the dust was settle, we won 20-19.
Having said all that, it is quite obvious that this week’s ‘words’ is not about baseball, but it is about being the underdog, the one who has been counted out and looked at without any hope whatsoever. I believe we have all been a situation, relationship or competition where we were the underdog. I am almost certain that at some point in each one of our lives we can look at a particular event where we were up against the wall…where everyone, including ourselves, considered the game over, the underdog loses.
The truth is, the Lord likes underdogs. He came into this world so the underdogs may have victory. Death, sin, the Devil and Hell have had the victory long enough. They have worked their way into the lives of so many, resulting in destroyed marriages, delinquent children and detestable lifestyles. As bad as it may have been and for so many people to count you out, there is one consistent character in our lives… That is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is He Who sees us through the storm…It is He who leads us in the darkness…It is He Who guides us in our weakest moment…It is He Who never fails, never ceases and never counts out the underdogs He came to save.
I Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
The next time you are looked upon as the underdog…as the one destined to lose, just look to Jesus Christ, the One Who gave us the victory. Despite our ourselves, it was and is Him Who saves, seals and sanctifies. In that fact we may trust, live and breathe in this one life we have.
Today in History:
1789 – In the House of Representatives, James Madison introduces proposed amendments to the Constitution that eventually become the Bill of Rights.
1861 – Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1887 – Herman Hollerith patents his punch-card calculator.
1948 – Texaco Star Theater, one of TV’s first hit shows, debuts with Milton Berlet as host.
1982 – In the first address by a president to a joint session of the British Parliament, Ronald Reagan predicts that Communism will end up “on the ash heap of history.”
Til the Shout,
Dr. B.J. Stagner Jr.
Pastor
New Testament Baptist Church
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