A Higher Perspective

This week I was journaling, and I had a memory come back to me. I was four or five years old playing Tee Ball. It was the first game, and my turn to bat.  My heart was beating, and I could feel everyone’s eyes on my back.  The anxiety of it all had the top of my ears burning. I stood by my coach, bat in hand. I raised my bat to take a swing, but before I could my coach stopped me.  He readjusted my feet to give me a better stance. Embarrassed at my failure I fled the field to the nearby playground. I strategically went through the dome shaped monkey bars, creating a cage safe from adults. The last piece of the memory I can recall is turning around to see my parents running towards the monkey bars. That was my first T-Ball game, and my last.  

I felt like God told me it is my turn to bat, and that He has everything teed up for me. This was the final adjustment.

I started to wonder, how many times has God set me up before, but I ran off the field at His correction? 

Being corrected and receiving correction are different. Anyone can be given correction. It is a mature son and a daughter that receives correction and puts it into practice. It is a blessing to them because they know they cannot mature without correction. 

Proverbs 3:12 reads, “For the Lord corrects those He loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.” 

I think back to my coach. My coach was setting me up for success. He knew where my feet needed to go to have the right balance, where I needed to hold the bat to not hurt myself. He knew exactly the distance I needed to be from the plate. He had a higher perspective. He could see the future and make judgement calls that my inexperience could not.

Why does God correct us and position us? Because he has a higher perspective. He knows things that my inexperience could never know. Correction takes humility, but humility is a mark of intimacy.