On the edge of...

I think most of my close friends know that I am a huge OSU Buckeyes fan. One of my baby girls first memories will be watching OSU football with her Daddy. Though she might not remember the first one as she was only 11 day's old, but I have the memory to share with her. At any rate, I was watching my Bucks play this past week in the Sugar Bowl. Needless to say the first half was awesome, the second half it became more of a game than I had hoped for. Not to do an entire play by play of the last 6 minutes just know, if you didn't see it, that the end Razorbacks blocked a punt with nearly no time left in the game. Up by 5 the Buckeyes had to bear down one more time and come up with something to stop this high-powered offense. The defense forced the quarterback to make a bad pass and the ball was intercepted by OSU and the rest is history.

The point is I was on the edge of my seat the entire second half. I was sick to my stomach, nerves had set in, and I was going grayer by the moment. It was a tense moment. Partially because it's my team...we want to see the team make it. Partially because I told one of the boys in my student ministry that if OSU lost I would wear his Florida Gators shirt, and I can't stand that program. On the edge...

Life is full of situations that make us feel like we are on the edge. It's how you respond. How will you carry yourself through the "on the edge" times? How will you respond to hostility? How will you respond to adversity?

As a football coach we tell our team that when things go wrong, there is a "sudden change" that can happen. We coach our team to come out and make a bad situation turn into a good one.

I think God asks us to worship Him through the good and the bad in life. Isaiah 25:9 says, " “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.” No matter what is going on in life, our worship, true devotion, truly living bold for Him, means that no matter how bad it gets, or on the edge we are, we rely on a power that only God can give.

My goal for this year is to live through the "on the edge" situations and come out knowing that God will have my back the entire time.