Dallas Does It Again!
Can you believe it? The Cowboy’s did it again! I’ve been following Dallas for years, and at last it looked like they had found their star, inspirational player and were in the running for the Super Bowl. Then, in the last minutes of Saturday night’s game, Tony Romo bobbled the ball on a potential game-winning field goal snap, made a mad dash for the goal line and was stopped short of a touchdown… in shame! Seattle advances; Dallas is out.
I wish it was the first time I have seen Dallas shoot themselves in the foot, but it has happened many times before; more than I can remember. Isn’t it sad, though, that their star player… the one who had breathed life back into the team should be the one who finally dropped the ball?
Life is like that! All too often, it is the very one who has the greatest potential who ends up falling on the goal line. None of us is immune. To start well does not guarantee that you will finish well. Today’s hero can be tomorrow’s black eye. We never have the luxury of coasting. If we are not to disappoint ourselves and everyone around us, it must be full-bore all the way!
The Bible is filled with examples of men and women who had great potential but who did not finish well. They got their eyes off the finish line and onto themselves or something else around them. Before long, like Demas who deserted Paul, they were in the world, loving it, failing God, and ending in failure.
Tony Romo’s football bobble is a great disappointment, but it doesn’t begin to compare with a life that loses its meaning and misses out on its potential. “Fight the good fight of faith,” Paul said. It is advice that he, himself, followed, and it is the only way to true spiritual victory.
Don’t drop the ball!
I wish it was the first time I have seen Dallas shoot themselves in the foot, but it has happened many times before; more than I can remember. Isn’t it sad, though, that their star player… the one who had breathed life back into the team should be the one who finally dropped the ball?
Life is like that! All too often, it is the very one who has the greatest potential who ends up falling on the goal line. None of us is immune. To start well does not guarantee that you will finish well. Today’s hero can be tomorrow’s black eye. We never have the luxury of coasting. If we are not to disappoint ourselves and everyone around us, it must be full-bore all the way!
The Bible is filled with examples of men and women who had great potential but who did not finish well. They got their eyes off the finish line and onto themselves or something else around them. Before long, like Demas who deserted Paul, they were in the world, loving it, failing God, and ending in failure.
Tony Romo’s football bobble is a great disappointment, but it doesn’t begin to compare with a life that loses its meaning and misses out on its potential. “Fight the good fight of faith,” Paul said. It is advice that he, himself, followed, and it is the only way to true spiritual victory.
Don’t drop the ball!
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