Have you ever prayed about your golf game?
Perhaps you should.
If you are prideful, however, you will not ask for help from other golfers or golf coaches, and neither will you ask God.
Help? You don't need any help. You can do this all by yourself and you certainly don't want any lip about it!
In your own mind, you are the golfer others talk about.
All of your drives at the tees are simply majestic in their beauty.
Your second and third shots to the greens are something to behold.
No one can pitch and chip quite like you.
When putting, you own the greens.
You keep swinging the same way and getting the same results, but you can do this. You know your game will get better if you just keep swinging, if you keep doing the same things you taught yourself to do because, after all, there is no one on the course quite like you. You are different, you are unique, you are one-of-a-kind. Most of all, you are you.
Why, it would be beneath your dignity to ask for help! Lessons are for people not like you.
In your own mind, golf is for you and for this you were born.
In truth, however, people play golf the same way they play life. They don't need help from others, and they certainly don't need any help from God, for asking God for help is beneath their dignity.
When golfers stop learning anything new, their game is stifled, they accept a comfort zone, and they will remain in this comfort zone and play the same game, the same way---month after month, year after year, and even decade after decade---with little or no improvement. But that doesn't bother them because they are playing their own game, in their own mind, and in their own way. And they like that.
In like manner, people like the comfort zones of their churches and religious institutions. They like the comfort of the pews, they like the comfort in knowing that their minister or priest will deliver a comfortable message, and they like for God to remain comfortable behind the curtain.
The kings and queens of the tees like to be seen on golf courses, and they like the attention they receive when they enter their churches or religious institutions as kings and queens of the pews.
Because people are proud and reject Christ, their lives will never be better than their lives are today: but their days will get worse.
When golfers are too proud to ask for help, their golf games will never be better than they are today: but they will be worse.
When people will not humble themselves to golf and admit they need help, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more than that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
When people will not humble themselves to God, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more that that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (James 4: 6)
But if golfers will humble themselves and ask for help, God will give them grace. And their achievements ahead will amaze themselves as their golf game becomes entirely new!
Likewise, if people will humble themselves to Christ, their lives will become entirely new!
Perhaps you should.
If you are prideful, however, you will not ask for help from other golfers or golf coaches, and neither will you ask God.
Help? You don't need any help. You can do this all by yourself and you certainly don't want any lip about it!
In your own mind, you are the golfer others talk about.
All of your drives at the tees are simply majestic in their beauty.
Your second and third shots to the greens are something to behold.
No one can pitch and chip quite like you.
When putting, you own the greens.
You keep swinging the same way and getting the same results, but you can do this. You know your game will get better if you just keep swinging, if you keep doing the same things you taught yourself to do because, after all, there is no one on the course quite like you. You are different, you are unique, you are one-of-a-kind. Most of all, you are you.
Why, it would be beneath your dignity to ask for help! Lessons are for people not like you.
In your own mind, golf is for you and for this you were born.
In truth, however, people play golf the same way they play life. They don't need help from others, and they certainly don't need any help from God, for asking God for help is beneath their dignity.
When golfers stop learning anything new, their game is stifled, they accept a comfort zone, and they will remain in this comfort zone and play the same game, the same way---month after month, year after year, and even decade after decade---with little or no improvement. But that doesn't bother them because they are playing their own game, in their own mind, and in their own way. And they like that.
In like manner, people like the comfort zones of their churches and religious institutions. They like the comfort of the pews, they like the comfort in knowing that their minister or priest will deliver a comfortable message, and they like for God to remain comfortable behind the curtain.
The kings and queens of the tees like to be seen on golf courses, and they like the attention they receive when they enter their churches or religious institutions as kings and queens of the pews.
Because people are proud and reject Christ, their lives will never be better than their lives are today: but their days will get worse.
When golfers are too proud to ask for help, their golf games will never be better than they are today: but they will be worse.
When people will not humble themselves to golf and admit they need help, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more than that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
When people will not humble themselves to God, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more that that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (James 4: 6)
But if golfers will humble themselves and ask for help, God will give them grace. And their achievements ahead will amaze themselves as their golf game becomes entirely new!
Likewise, if people will humble themselves to Christ, their lives will become entirely new!
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