A NOTE FROM PASTOR BOB
When I played competitive baseball, my batting average through little league and junior high and high school ran about .600. That meant for every ten times I was at bat I got on base an average of six times. When you think about it, professional players, if they are good, hover around a .300 average. My pitch to hit was the fastball. The harder the pitcher threw it, the farther I would hit it. It was the curveballs I didn't like. There was something about the slower speed and flakiness of the throw (curveball) that I would look like a someone swatting flies with a swatter. I just couldn't hit a curveball.
Some Christians are the same when it comes to life. We can handle the fastballs, but when life throws us a curveball, we feel inadequate, unprepared and may even ask, "why?" It's those dang curveballs. Jesus said that life would throw us some curveballs and even though we were His followers, we would be impacted. The question is, "What do you do when life throws you a curveball?" My baseball coach used to say, "Bob, when the curveball comes, don't bail out of the box. Stand firm, watch it closely and then swing. You'll hit it every time." Friends, when life throws us a curveball we need to stand firm in God's promise that no matter what, He will see us through.
— Pastor Bob
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