If You Try

If You Try

Saturday, November 26, 2011

You Don't Know What You Are Made Of Until You Are Tested


It's easy to be a star football player from the comfort of your couch. We know everything that the guy on the field is doing wrong and if he would just do what we command (with our chips and beer in hand), he would win the game. I'm afraid that the game is a lot different when you are actually on the field. I'm sure we would all develop a little more humility once we took a helmet to the rib cage and had our faces shoved into the turf. Then reality sets in, perhaps this wasn't as easy as I thought it was we think to ourselves. Time out! The fact is that we don't know what we are capable of until we are placed into the crucible of life. Testing brings out the real us, comfort does not. See how you react to the worst that life has offer or accept the seemingly beneficial challenges that it presents in order to see what is really on the inside. Once you conquer that situation, then you have bragging rights and new authority, but until you actually live through and pass certain courses in the school of life, don't assume you are ready to be on the field.