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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Spiritual Mental Toughness!!


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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