Wrenching the Rules
Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts
Victor Lee
Monday, May 20, 2002
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Wrenching the Rules
Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts
Monday, May 20
Key Bible Verse: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well (Matthew 6:33, NIV). Bonus Reading:Leviticus 19:35–37
It was a small adjustment that could make a big difference. Sure, it was against NASCAR rules, but almost everyone else was doing it. So crew chief Tim Shutt crawled under the No. 20 car of Mike McLaughlin, who races on the NASCAR Busch circuit.
"Joe [Gibbs, team owner] is adamant that we don't cheat," says Shutt, a relatively new believer who encountered Christ at a Christian retreat for participants in the racing industry. "Most teams figure that as long as you get away with it, it's not cheating."
"I said to Mike that morning in practice, 'If we're no good in practice, I'll put this piece—the illegal piece—on. Probably 30 other teams are doing it." I was justifying it.
"I got up under the car, I got halfway through putting it on, and that verse, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God … ' came flashing in red in front of me, and whoa, that was it. I said, 'I'm leaving this up to you, God.'" Shutt didn't put on the piece.
McLaughlin won the race. It was Talladega, one of the biggest races of 2001.
"When we won, the first thing that came to my mind was that verse," Tim says. "God wanted to show Himself to me."
—Victor Lee in Sports Spectrum
My Response: How am I letting God's Word shape my character?
Thought to Apply: There's no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
—Tom Peters (management consultant)
Adapted from: Sports Spectrum (7-8/01) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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May/June 2002,Vol. 5,No. 3
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