Honoring God when your life is going good is like playing for the Yankees. What if your life what not going good? What if your life could not compare to the Yankees’ successful years of pitching, fielding, hitting, and coaching? It’s easy to claim peace, freedom, or victory when you are on top of the world, but what if you were the starting ace for the Pittsburgh Pirates? Could you stare down a long season of baseball? A season where you know that you don’t have any hitting, fielding, or coaching backing you up?
So far these past two weeks I feel like the Pirate’s starting ace (If you read that sentence with a slur in your voice the last word could sound like two different words and either of those will work for how I feel). Honoring God is a calling placed on my life. That calling does not change with how I feel. Do I believe that God is lesser of a being because I failed a class, missed a football game, broke up with my girlfriend, or am having a sucky day? Forget your pity party and sucky days, and let’s look at scripture for a moment. Go Read 1st Kings 1:1-2:2.
King David was having a terrible time. People were trying to put words in his mouth, actions in his life, and hold him accountable. He decided to act justly and stick to his calling in life. Honoring God was what this man’s life was all about. Everything that he was in control of (this included ruling all of Israel
