The Second Half
If life is a football game, the second half is just about to start and I sure am looking forward to it!
Looking back on the first half, I am not pleased with my performance. For that is exactly what it was…a performance. Sure there were flashes of brilliance and demonstrations of incredible potential. The reality is that most of it was shallow, self-serving, and egotistical. It may not have appeared that way to everyone outwardly, but it is the truth nonetheless. For those of us who think we understand the game, it is easy to dress up a self-serving life in garments more acceptable to accomplishing our agenda.
The first half mercifully started to come to a close when the seeds of destruction planted long ago in my heart brought forth their harvest. I went through a period of financial and relational ruin as I learned the truth of the Scripture that says, “But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.” [1 Tim 6:9]