We began this week talking about some of the great comebacks in the NFL playoffs this past weekend. But you know, for every team that had a great comeback, there is also a team that...blew it. In the 2008 Super Bowl, the New York Giants and Eli Manning had a great breakthrough comeback and defeated the New England Patriots. What we often forget is that the Patriots were 35 seconds from having a perfect season...and they let it slip through their fingers. Don't you know those players have relieved those 35 seconds over and over during the past 5 years.
While Jeremiah 18 and the story of the potter's wheel reminds us that it is never too late to turn things around, it is also true that we never get to the place, this side of heaven, that we reach the place where we can coast in our spiritual disciplines. The same disciplines that it took for me to become established in the faith are required for me to finish my race faithfully.
The Titanic. Enron. Lehman Brothers. Blockbusters Video. What do they all have in common? At some point in their history, they seemed to big to fail. But they all fell. You never get to the point where you can coast out your life.
That's why Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:12: “If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.” He's reminding us that it's never too late to mess things up. I'm not trying to be negative, but I am reminding us...we need to be careful.
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