Strengthening Your
Teammate
Sometimes
a football player can become discouraged after a bad play. A player can become exhausted
from just putting everything he has into winning the game but still knows the
enemy has gained control and has the advantage in scores. He could actually start questioning is own abilities
after mental slams out on the field because of something he did wrong, even
though he gave it his best shot.
The
best thing for his teammates to do would be to get him pumped to do a better
job next time. Help him get his thinking
in the right direction and the focus off himself. A good leader will seek to restore the strength
of his teammate.
In
the Christians life, this kind of encouragement would be considered grace.
I
think of Jesus after he endured temptation for forty days in the wilderness.
Even
Jesus was ministered to and strengthened by the angels. God sent angels to minister to our Savior.
We
are to minister to each other in times of testing, and times of temptation in order
to strengthen each other, especially when a team member becomes wearied by the
sorrows of life.
God
has given us grace because he knows how fragile we really are. In comparison to all creation we really are
very small, but if God thought us valuable enough to die for, then we should
count every living soul valuable.
Valuable
enough to lead them to Christ or back to the place they need to be in their relationship to
God.
Mark
1:13
And he was there in the wilderness forty days,
tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto
him.
Susan Y Nikitenko
July
22nd, 2014
Devotional
Football
