A forty year old hall of fame goalie brings his team back from a 3-0 series deficit to force a game 7 on home ice. They win the cup! The top prize! What a great story and one for the history books that sports fans would not soon forget! Possibly the goalies last season. What an accomplishment and legacy to leave behind for others to aspire to!
But...it was not to be. It wasn't all the goalies fault though. He had much help from his team mates. A five minute major penalty and 3 goals scored against, and penalty after penalty after that set the stage for another story. Someone else won the top prize. We'll never know how the first story ends because it was never written.
I was thinking about the game afterward and the New Jersey Devils just seemed to have everything stacked against them last night in their 6-1 loss to the L.A. Kings. Congratulations to the Kings for winning their first Stanley cup. They played to win, and win they did and deservedly so.
I had an overwhelming sense that God was speaking to my heart and saying " Now you know a little bit of how I feel when people don't participate in my plans for them. I have the best to offer them. I created them for a specific purpose. I know exactly where they would fit to make the most of their lives. Where they would win the top prize, but they don't involve me in their life plans. I'm forced to watch from the sidelines train wreck after train wreck as they follow other plans for their lives.
Jesus Christ is the Top Prize. There is none greater. Run the race of life for the Kings Cup! A cup that overflows and never runs dry. A fountain of Living water that brings with it rewards for all eternity. Treasures laid up in heaven where rust or moths will never destroy, plus all the help you need from day to day to face whatever comes your way here and now by the Power of the Holy Spirit!
The story is yours to write. Start writing today with "Lord be merciful to me a sinner" and go from there. If your story starts with that, then it will end with rewards for all eternity.
Incorporate His-story into yours. Make sure your story gets remembered. Make sure it gets written in the Lamb's book of Life...
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize."... 1 Corinthians 9 : 24
c.mcgrath
