Tonight we went to watch a Tampa Bay Rays Baseball game at the Trop!
They played the Baltimore Oriels and they WON!
Baseball is known as the national sport of the U.S. It was brought here by immigrants and is as popular as Mom's Apple Pie!
When you think of baseball what comes to your mind? I think of the song-"Take Me out the Ballgame". I think of hotdogs and popcorn and cracker jacks!
I can't imagine how may hot dogs are sold in a game or how many bags of peanuts and popcorn and cracker jacks are bought and consumed! Gallons of soda are purchased! The amounts have to be astounding as the orders come into the ball field before a game in preparation for selling.
When you go to a baseball game you also always see a mascot-something that is to bring luck for the team-a character that can be used for merchandising. The Rays are no different-their mascot is Slider.
He is a big, furry, blue creature that runs around during the game helping to cheer on his team.
It's amazing to look around a stadium and see how many people pay to come and watch their team play a game with a ball and a stick and run around some bases to score runs! (Come on, you've never thought of it that way??!!)
It caused me to stop and think for a moment...how many of those people that were there tonight will be in their church on Sunday or Wednesday night? I don't see people flocking through the doors of the churches around America. Can you imagine what could be done to further the gospel for Christ if we had those many people sitting in the pews at church? And it doesn't cost you anything to go-just take one day at a time and be there when the doors are open!
Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said unto me, "Let us go into the house of the LORD."
We, as Christians especially, should want to go to church-we should look forward to the time we can spend there worshiping God and hearing His Word preached and being able to fellowship with other believers.
God has given us a promise:
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." We need to step it up-we can't let the next person be responsible for it. Our country was based on biblical principles and we need to continue them. If you are a true sports fan you don't abandon your team because of their record or what others say about it. It should be the same way with God-there will always be someone who speaks against God but we know the truth if we have read the Bible and we need to follow Him even when it may not seem popular-why? Because it is the right thing to do-you can't go wrong by following God.
So, are you already faithful? Do you follow God like sports fanatics follow their teams? Are you willing to talk about Him and to Him constantly and be in church so that you can commune with Him or is your seat empty?
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