Its baseball season and both of our boys are playing! At one of Robby's practices this week the coach was teaching the boys about stealing second. Each boy had a time on first while another batted. The boys practiced getting a lead - looking for the throwback to 1st - and taking off to 2nd. The 1st base coach would always tell them - 'get back, get back!' or 'GO! GO! GO!'Without fail, the coach would yell - GO! - and each kid would pause and look to see where the ball was! Rather than just listening to the coach and RUNNING all out to 2nd base, each boy would pause and look around to find the ball. Oer and over and oer the coach told the boys not to pause or worry about where the ball was but to RUN.
The boys reminded me of myself (and you too). God calls us to obedience in areas of our lives like the coach yells GO! and we, like the boys stop to see what's going on and 'where the ball is' instead of - BY FAITH - running as hard as possible. I want to teach Robby to run like he's never run before when he hears GO! And I want to teach him to follow God in the same way - running like he's never run before!
