What Tipped the Odds
Theme for this Week: Just Say No
Paul Faulkner
Sunday, December 30, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize (1 Corinthians 9:25).
Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Laffit Pincay was the winning jockey at the Belmont Stakes in 1984. I once overheard a group of men discussing his abilities. One said, "Don't ever bet your money against that fellow." It seems that Pincay was sitting next to him in the first-class section of an airplane once when a fine dinner was served. He said, "The only thing he even touched on his plate was a sack of peanuts. He opened the cellophane wrapper, took out a single peanut and set it on his tray. Then he took his knife, cut the peanut in two and ate one-half of it."
Even a nongambler like me had no trouble understanding why you shouldn't wager against a disciplined guy like that. Pincay knows he must exercise self-discipline to keep his weight down yet be strong enough to manage and control a 1,500-pound thoroughbred in a racing situation. Apparently, his efforts at self-discipline are still paying off. I noticed in the sports section of a newspaper that Pincay recently won a million-dollar race at the Santa Anita Handicap.
Paul Faulkner in Making Things Right When Thing Go Wrong
Dear God, please empower me to resist all that would dilute my commitment to You and Your will for me.
Adapted from: Making Things Right When Thing Go Wrong (Howard, 1996).
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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