May 1st, 2021: Golf and Life Lessons

Golfing business has been hoping in Canada and the US. It is very few things that good friends can get together and have some fun.

 


Have you had to deal with the impossible in life? Sometimes we feel as if we cannot climb over the hill in front of us. We try everything, and it appears as if we make no progress. People with addiction find themselves in this situation often. They want to get better, and nothing they try seems to help. Not until they have the freedom to acknowledge their own condition and ask for help.

 


Have you heard people say that "Only weak people believe in God because they cannot do things for themselves."? It might sound easy to receive the forgiveness and the grace of God. It is a lot harder to learn how to live that out. It will take a lifetime. Only superficial people think that having faith in God is easy. When we allow that faith to work in our transformation, we know that it takes our total strength and attention.
 
 

 
How about us who claim to be Christians? How can we be identified? Is that because we claim that we are committed to some powerful human beings? Around where have we been wandering? What are we carrying with us? Can people see us as an instrument of God's grace and mercy to the world? Can we say that we have labored in love so that others might see the beauty of God?

2 Corinthians 12: 10
"For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
 
 

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