Because of a sweet, sweet heart, our daddy had a dream come true. Now anybody that knows our daddy knows he’s a nut when it comes to baseball. Don’t get me wrong, he can commentate with the best on any sport, but baseball is his thing. He played baseball, coached baseball, and our mom would say ate, drank and slept baseball.
So, daddy got to go see his favorite team (when they’re winning), the Washington Nationals play in Game 4 of the World Series. Absolutely thrilling! The World Series! Oh sure, you may not be a baseball fan, but everyone’s heard of the World Series. You know, the best in the American League and the National League (aren’t all U.S. teams in both? curious) playing for the title of World Champions. Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and… It went to the wire, seven games. A week of angst for baseball fans.
Before going to the game and despite the loss of Game 4, daddy called it the chance of a lifetime. And it was. This chance of a lifetime has had me thinking about the chances of our lifetimes. Now surely we wouldn’t pass up the gift to attend the World Series, or some other cool event. Would we? A vacation? A fishing excursion? A bowl game? A new car? It may not be the World Series, or any sporting event, but we all have what we’d call chances of a lifetime. But there’s another kind of chance of a lifetime that truly is the chance of a lifetime. How about the chance to reach out to those who need Jesus? Those who need salvation? Isn’t that a gift? Do we have that chance? Is there an opportunity for us to give a gift and an opportunity for someone else to receive a gift – a chance of a lifetime? Don’t we have the chance of a lifetime to offer an eternal lifetime to others?
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Peter 3:15
We all know the outcome of the World Series, the National’s won! But, we don’t know the outcome of life, unless we know the Savior. We have the chance of a lifetime to reach out to others. Life is short, no matter how long we live. What are we doing with our lifetime of chances? Are we talking about the Gift? Are we giving others the chance of a lifetime?