There's an old baseball saying, "You are the ballplayer it says you are on the back of your baseball card." Baseball players (like everyone else) tend to make up excuses for bad play. They exaggerate the truth and sometimes blame it on others. But no matter what they say... the stats don’t lie. Hits... runs... errors... all there in black and white. No matter what the front of the card might look like... the real player and his ability (or lack thereof) is revealed on the reverse.
Many of us are just like those ball players. We choose poorly and blame our environment. We become disobedient in our giving and blame the economy. We stop praying and blame God when we struggle with faith. The Bible says in Galatians 6, “For we are each responsible for our own conduct” God says... we ARE the player on the back of the card. He wants us to admit our faults... learn from them... make the changes we need to... and work toward becoming the all-star that He has created us to be!
