Seize the Moment – Day 1305
Receive Correction Like a Champion!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, October 13.
Athletes are trained to receive their coach’s correction for the purpose it is being given – to help them become the very best they can be. I’ve never met a champion who didn’t have to suffer under their coach’s discipline. In fact, great athletes are attracted to successful programs for this very reason. They want to learn how to become a champion. Proverbs 9:7-10 captures the importance of how we, as God’s athletes, are to handle correction in our everyday lives, so that we can learn how to live like champions:
He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, and he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, reprove a wise man and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
You are God’s athlete, chosen to be a part of His championship team; now, live like it! Part of this mindset is learning how to respond to the Coach, and His appointed assistants, like a wise person. God intends for His correction, reproof, and instruction to bring out the best in you. As Hebrews 12:11 explains about the effects of the Coach’s training regimen upon His chosen athletes, “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
God bless you!
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