Play Until The Final Out

This past weekend, the football world was filled with comebacks. On Saturday, the Denver Broncos had a victory and a trip to the AFC Championship within grasp, when the Baltimore Ravens threw a seventy-yard touchdown pass in the final seconds of the game to come back and win. On Sunday, The Atlanta Falcons had a 20 points half-time lead over the Seattle Seahawks and then saw the Seahawks come from behind to take a one point lead with just over 30 seconds left. Amazingly, the Falcons were able on three passes to get to the Seahawks 35 yard-line and kick a game-winning field-goal with under 15 seconds left in the game. Comebacks are amazing stories.


In football, a comeback not only involves a battle against the opponent, it also involves a battle against the clock. Some comeback efforts are stopped short when time runs out, like when the Georgia Bulldogs ran out of time against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game this year.


For that reason, baseball has the advantage in the comeback department, because there is no clock. You can never get too far behind in baseball to win as long as you have at least one more at-bat, one more strike. At some point in each football game, there comes a time when the lead is big enough that the winning team can take a knee and run out the clock. In baseball, you can't coast to a win; no lead is safe, no loss is certain, until the final out.

Life is like that as well. Our mantra in life should be "It's never too late...." And because of that, we should play until the final out. This week we are going to see why, from Jeremiah 18, it is never too late.