What
often separates champions from the rest of the group is Poise. In
watching many big playoff games, it was clear that the mental toughness it
takes to be poised is what allows Champions to win. They simply have more
poise in the crucial moments of the game. Life requires mental toughness
and poise when tough times hit.
Many
of us adults have had "terrible times" blow thru our lives; times
when we have lost a job, a loved one, struggles with an illness or some other
difficulty. At those moments, our maturity, poise and mental
toughness is revealed. Do we trust in God as sovereign over our
circumstances or do we breakdown our faith and worry or do what we should not
do and opposite of what we have practiced or prepared to do....or maybe that is
our problem. Maybe we haven't spent enough time cultivating poise (ie.
faith in the God who could create the world in 6 days) so when the struggles of
life hit us, we break down and stop fulfilling what God has called us to be.
Sports often reveals our poise and points out where in our character we have
fallen short. When circumstances reveal our weaknesses, we should
immediately seek the Scriptures to find our source of strength and grow into
the mature believers God has chosen us to be!
2 Timothy 3:16-17 - 16 All
Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the
man of God may be complete [MATURE], equipped for every good
work.
This verse teaches us that the Bible is where we find the materials necessary to know God and His expectations for our life to be mature and poised as we move thru the process of life.
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