Truth comes from strange places

There might be hope for me yet.

Sometimes I go through my daily tasks, trying to do what I think God wants me to, and I just can't seem to see Him.

Then again, sometimes I see Him and hear Him speak to me when I'm not even looking for Him.

Monday night, I was listening to the San Francisco 49ers get beat(again)...it was their seventh straight defeat since opening the NFL season with two wins. In an effort to explain why the 49ers were having such difficulty now, the team's color analyst, Gary Plummer, said that when you're in the midst of a long losing streak, you tend to become frustrated.

And after a while, your frustration becomes so intense that you depart from the game plan in hopes of turning the momentum around, and when that happens, you tend to confuse your teammates because you are no longer "on the same page" with them...you are playing for yourself, and things usually get worse for your team. The lesson? Stick with what you know...stick with the game plan...and have faith that things will eventually turn around.

I don't think Plummer is a preacher, but I couldn't help but think when I was listening to all that that our lives are exactly like that. Sometimes we go through losing streaks...where things don't ever seem to go right for us, no matter what we do. And we, like the 49ers, get frustrated with things and start wondering if we should depart from the game plan to try to turn the momentum around. Yet we as Christians have the greatest coach there's ever been...God Himself...and when we depart from His carefully determined game plan for our lives, we end up not being "on His page"...and our losing multiplies.

The way out? To stick with His game plan...and trust that things will get better if we follow it. My life history tells me it will when I do just that...and it won't when I don't.

So God spoke to me where I least expected Him to, and when I least expected to. And you know what? I'm going to try to be a better player and follow my Coach's game plan better. And maybe, just maybe, I won't have to wait until next week to start winning again...maybe I just might start doing it tomorrow.

Yes, there might be hope for me yet.

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