Golf Tournament at Sage Meadows

This past week in the neighborhood I live in, Sage Meadows, we have been hosting a semi-professional golf tournament. The gentlemen that makeup the Heartland seniors Tour have been in town competing in the Optus Senior Open. I have enjoyed the excitement around the course over the past few days even though I have not got to watch much of the tournament.

This is a tour for men over the age of 46 that have either played on the pga tour or the champions tour and for some reason are not on those tours now. Their youth and skills have either slipped a little or they are working their way up to the top tour now. So in this tournament you have men that are either on the way up or the way down.

Life is like this tour in many ways. You are either on your way up the "leader board" or on you are on your way down, and everyone around you is in the same boat. If you are a businessman or woman, you are either fighting your way to the top or you are fighting to stay at the top. Either way, you are always on the move. A few are stuck in the middle not moving at all. If you are stuck in the middle you are losing ground.

This reminds me of verse 16 in Revelation chapter 3 about being lukewarm. The church at Laodicea was warned about being neither hot or cold, just lukewarm and that they would be spewed out. As Christians we must be moving up. We must try to improve our lives. We must try to be better Christians everyday. We must try to do good to everyone we meet. We must not ever become satisfied with where we are. We know we are all sinners and we may feel that we are at the bottom of the "leader board", but we must not give up. We must pray, study, and ask forgiveness and continue to climb that "leader board".

All of this from a small golf tournament in my neighborhood. Amazing what you can get out of life in you just look for it.


I said yesterday that I would get to what I think needs to be done to improve church on Wednesday and Sunday nights, I will get to it, just not today.