One of my favorite sports movies is Tin Cup with Kevin Costner. In the movie, Costner plays a golf pro who at one point in his life was really good and had a chance to be on the PGA Tour, but wouldn't listen to his caddie and failed. The movie starts with him now living in a trailor in the middle of nowhere running a driving range. He ends up getting a chance to be in a tournament and beat his long time rival and get back on the tour when he finds himself facing a dilemma. He had to make his next shot over the water. Now the water was really far away, so if was going to clear it, it would have to be the shot of his life. The best thing to do, would be to hit it so it would be just short of the water, and then it would be an easy shot over the water from there. Costner's character goes for it and the ball rolls into the water. Then at that point, instead of taking his drop right by the water he refuses and decides to hit again from where he's at! He misses time and again only at his caddie's disgust to see Costner basically throw away the tournament that he was winning. How could anyone be so stubborn and stupid?
Enter the Pharaoh of Moses' day. Time and again he was given the opportunity to not have these plagues come down on him and his country, but because of his stubbornness and stupidity, everyone else around him suffers, except the Israelites! I don't know about you when you read this passage, but it turns my stomach a bit. It makes me evaluate if I'm being stubborn toward anything that God wants to change in me and hopefully let that stubbornness flee from me before it's too late! Maybe today, you could do the same. Have a great day guys!
Ron Foster
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