Perceptions #200122

"Come Out of the Grandstand."

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It has been said that every baseball team could use a man who could play every position perfectly, who never strikes out, never makes an error.., but there is no way to get him to lay down his hot dog and come out of the grandstand. There is seldom a shortage of critics in the grandstand who are always able to say, after a player has made an error, just how the play should have been made. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to find a man who would have knocked that last pitch out of the park if he had been at bat. But it's much easier to talk a perfect game than to play one.

The Christian life is a race, and we are to run it and not just sit in the grandstand looking on. "Therefore, let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1). We are to participate in the race, and not just be an on-looker. Sitting in the grandstand critical of others who run does not entitle us to the prize. Come out of the grandstand - let's all start running. There is plenty to do!

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