By age twenty-three Major League baseball teams are no longer interested in you. Scouts and GMs consider you too old to be developed. Even Sports Illustrated once ran a headline reading, “There’s Just No Room for the Late Bloomer.” I’m so glad that’s not a Bible verse.

I have never forgotten a young college player at the San Francisco Giant spring training facility saying, “We got to walk on with San Diego. This is all I got.” He had just seen his name on the released board. The door to baseball had just shut in his twenty-one year old life, but what burned in my mind was him declaring baseball was all he had. That’s simply not true with Jesus Christ.

The times when we experience our biggest regrets, failures, mistakes or broken dreams can often become opportunities to hear God the clearest. God’s call seems to be louder in our brokenness. David wrote, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a crushed heart” (Psa 51:17). David wrote this after confessing his adultery with Bathsheba, his murder of Uriah, and lying. God heard that confession to Nathan the prophet and restored him.

David was broken, but just as broken crayons are still able to color, David’s repentance allowed God to bless him again. The king responded by saying, “I will teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will be converted.”

It’s the same with us. God still makes masterpieces out of our messes if we just come to repentance. May we aggressively cast down our fears, imaginations and inappropriate thoughts and pull down those strongholds that become welcome mats for demons to infect our lives.

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Pastor Huck