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By ANGELA WILLIAMS
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Low at points and high at others, I too have my seconds, minutes, hours and days being down.
But thank God for his continual love and grace he so freely bestows upon us.
I used to have weeks, months, years, and decades in my losing state.
As each player must individually state, “I’m the righteousness of Christ, not just a sinner saved by grace.”
Or in laymen’s terms, “I’m a first round draft pick, regardless of when I was picked.”
By way of the Holy Trinity, my ball has defied the laws of gravity.
By staying in flight longer and longer, as I get farther and further in my walk.
What is gravity to the creator of it?
Just as what is sin to the destroyer of it on the cross?
So as we journey onto the roads less traveled,
The curves will get narrower and sharper,
And the bumps deeper and more defined.
The bouncy ball effects of traveling in the defender’s territory,
May creates a stumbling block and cause one
To shave points from the word of God — I know!
Up today for God, and then down by life‘s circumstances and situations,
Trials and tribulations, fouls, free throws and forfeitures.
Bare in mind – Peter walked on water, and an ax head floated.
This gravity thing has already been conquered, as Jordan rises.
Continue on your chosen journey and remember,
As long as you bounce according to your flesh,
You will war against the principalities of deflection.
Coach Coulter always says, “the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Henceforth, he stepped in where our first coach slipped up,
And took us back through the fundamentals of pivoting, passing, pressing and rebounding the ball.
He horned in on how to properly defend the zone
And how to rightly decipher the pivotal moment to change from the slow-break to the fast-break.
Ultimately delivering us from another shameful season of double dribbling treason.
Although we ended our losing season with only one win.
Coach said, “that he considers us to be the undefeated champions.
Thus explaining who the destroyer of sin, was, is and will always be!
And he now sits at the right hand of the Father in glory.
In hindsight, we were fast asleep, all season!
We couldn’t even watch with him through four quarters.
In the flesh, compared too in the spirit;
No comparison can be made between the two.
To decipher the gravitational pull
Of the human ball as it bounces through life.
Up and down, while walking according to the flesh;
Strength through discipline and training,
To play ball man-on-man with the Spirit.
One will have to travel the roads less traveled;
To experience true redemption from the bouncy ball syndrome.
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