Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac . I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day . So grab your cup of coffee , sit back , relax and let me help you start your day right . I want to tell you about an experience that I had this last weekend . I am a big football fan .
Now , the kind of football I'm talking about is the North American kind , and up here in Canada we have the Canadian Football League , which is just a little bit different than the Americans , but the same basic idea . This last weekend I was watching my favorite Canadian football team , the BC Lions . They were playing a team from Ottawa .
I watched most of the game and my BC Lions , who should have been playing a whole lot better and in fact should have dominated the other team , they just weren't doing it . They were down by over two touchdowns with just over three minutes left in the game . To me it looked like it was over . There's no way they could overcome two touchdowns .
In fact , they were going to probably need three touchdowns in order to win , and the way they were playing it just wasn't going to happen . So I turned it off and went about my business . It wasn't until later that evening when I was texting a friend of mine where he said what did you think of that comeback by our Lions ? I said what do you mean ?
They lost , didn't they ? He said no , they won . So I raced around trying to catch some of the highlights and yes , my BC Lions got three touchdowns in under three minutes , setting a new team record for the greatest comeback in the shortest amount of time .
I was ecstatic that they won , but I was kicking myself that I had turned the game off and missed it as it was happening . That got me thinking a little bit . You see , I lost faith in my team . I didn't believe they could pull out a win in those three minutes , but they did .
And I realized that there are times in my life and I think in many of our lives where we do the same kind of thing with God At the beginning of facing a problem . We're on His side , we believe that he is with us and he's going to help us and we're going to find an answer .
But the longer we feel that we're not seeing the answer the way we want it , the more antsy we get to make a change , to maybe try to do something different or to give up on what God is doing .
And as we approach the deadline where we need the miracle to take place , it's not uncommon for any of us to say , okay , god , you haven't done it , you're obviously not going to do it , so I have to do something to solve this problem before the deadline arrives in the next three minutes or the next 24 hours , or whatever your deadline might be .
Or the next 24 hours or whatever your deadline might be . I really like what Isaiah , chapter 40 , verses 29 to 31 , say about all this . Speaking of God . It says he gives strength to the weary and he increases the power of the weak . Even youth grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall . But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength .
They will soar in wings like eagles . They will run and not grow weary . They will walk and not faint . There are times for us when we get weary of waiting and our faith gets tried and tested because God is not acting fast enough and the deadline is approaching . So we panic and we react out of fear and not out of faith .
And if we take action on that fear and try to do something ourselves , we will miss the miraculous that is set to appear right at the time when we need it the most . We can , and often do , miss that because we've decided to take our own action based upon that fear Over .
In John 16 , 13 , jesus said I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace In this world . You will have trouble , but take heart , I have overcome the world . Believe me , I know what it's like to be under the gun and under a time constraint , facing difficult deadlines when we don't know exactly how the answers are going to come together .
But we can hang on to two truths One , that Jesus said that , yeah , we're going to face times like that . It's not because of weakness on our part or mistakes on our part , or sin on our part . We will have times of that kind of testing and trial .
But Jesus said that we can have peace in the world when we are going through these problems , when we are facing them . And then he's promised that not only will he be with us , but that he has overcome the world and all the things it tries to throw at us .
He has overcome , he is our peace , he is our strength and he has promised to never leave us or forsake us . We can hang on to God's promises and his word , and he will be there for us .
Never give up on your faith , never bail on God and , believing that he's going to be able to help you , hang in there , be strong , be wise and let God pull out a last-minute miracle for you as well . He is with you . He loves you . Have a great day , my friends . We will talk again tomorrow .
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