Basketball and Sanctity

When I was a freshman / sophomore n high-school, sometimes I would go to the gym at lunch-time to play basketball. I wasn't good, but it was fun. Often the guys would just dribble around and shoot baskets. One day a boy named "Brian" made a nice free-throw. Swish! Someone passed him the ball back and he shot again. Swish! He got the ball back and shot a free-throw again. Swish! This same pattern kept continuing. Brian had fallen "into a good rhythm" and kept making basket after basket from the foul-line. I was thinking to myself "is this guy ever going to miss?" Finally after 15 or 16 shots, the ball hit the rim and bounced out. His streak was over.

Don't think Brian ever went "pro". In fact I don't even know if Brian even went out for college basketball. But for a short time, his free-throw shooting percentage was in the high 90s, Statistically unlikely--and better than a lot of the basketball pros. And he was just a 15- or 16-year old kid!

I wonder if this same phenomenon doesn't sometimes happen in our spiritual lives. Through the merits of grace -- we're suddenly placed in lofty places, light-years beyond what we've ever experienced in our ordinary lives. We've been given this "special rhythm". And we're on-fire. With God's help, we''re doing and accomplishing things no one would have believed possible. Statistically unlikely -- and yet surpassing what even some of the saints have done...

At least for a short time. Until the streak wears off...(grin)

Thank you Lord Jesus. Alleluia.