Never Give up!

Last night I got to watch my Tampa Bay Devil Rays win their first road series this year- and they did it over the New York Yankees (the evil empire)! It was a 3-1 series win, in which they won the first game, then got demoralizingly trounced in the second game. BUT they didn’t quit (I sure felt like giving up after that game)! They collected themselves and came right back the next day and the next to stretch their game record against the Yanks so far this year to 7-3! Woo hoo!

I could throw around a lot of bravado here, but that wouldn’t be very realistic. True, we no longer have the second worst percentage in baseball this year- but out of 30 major league baseball teams, we do have the third worst. So we’ll probably not win the World Series this year. Or the playoffs. Or even our division (why do we have to be in the AL East?). But we’re still plugging away and working for improvement. In a couple of years, with all our "up and coming" young players, we should have a decent team. But it won’t happen without some hard knocks and sticking with it.

Have you had some tough stuff happen in your life? Have you had a demoralizingly rough go of it lately where you just feel like giving up? Don’t do it! You can always start again from right where you are. Jesus will never give up on you- in fact he’s your biggest fan! He sees the potential he built into you and not only roots for you, prays for you to overcome!

Tomorrow’s another day. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, make sure everything’s right with God and take that next step. You are needed in the fight and we are promised to be overcomers if we never give up.

That’s what I’m talkin’ about!