God's Not Helping Me

Last Wednesday, after dragging himself home from another baseball defeat, Dylan sorrowfully announce that "God is not helping me win".  You see, this is Dylan's very first year playing organized baseball and their team is,... how can I put this nicely?... Ummmm.  Not good.  They haven't won a game yet this year and keeping this team of 12 year olds motivated is a full time job.  I was watching the coach at the last game and thought that he must be exhausted.  

Winning is fun.  No doubt about it.  But my suggestion is that we might find God's purpose in this event without focusing on the winning.  We spoke about sportsmanship.  God uses our everyday adventures to help us learn life lessons.  
  
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him. ~ Proverbs 24: 17-18

And baseball is a great way to understand the need to learn and follow the rules of the game.  Not all of life is a sporting event, but all of live has rules; written and unwritten. 

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ~ 2 Timothy 2:5
   
And lastly, probably the reason that I most encouraged Dylan to participate in ANY sport this summer, is that God encourages our socialization and fellowship.

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Don't give up Dylan boy.  Altough it seems like winning is the goal, the reward is in the teachable moments you're living every day. 

PS.   Please please please let them win just ONE game!!!