HALF-TIME

 A few years ago I felt a need to change some things in my life.  I felt that my devotional time was not all that it needed to be and not all that I had promised God.  I stepped down from a couple of responsibilities I had and refused to take on any other obligations that would distract me of the time that I felt needed to accomplish my goal.  Recently, in reading a book called Half Time, by Bob Buford (a good read) I begin to realize that I was probably in the "half time" of my life and began to have a different perspective of the second half.  

In the United States of America every year millions of viewers sit and watch the "half-time" show of the Super Bowl (football) game.  The show has changed over the past 5 decades.  It has gone from marching bands, to popular music acts such as "New Kids on the Block", and "Michael Jackson", to the more recent performance of the group "Blackeye Peas" at the XLV Super Bowl.  While some people thought that they were the best since their New Year's lunch "I've gotta a feeling" after reading some of the reviews, that the group "Blackeye Peas" does not appeal to everyone's taste.

Something else is happening while the entertainment is taking place on the playing field.  Back in the locker rooms the players of the game are "strategically planning", "healing the wounded", and working on their "second wind" for the second half of the game. 

"Half-time" is great for those in ministry as well.  It is a great time to assess disappointments and victories, deal with the wounded, and also give us a chance to get a second wind. 

It is most likely that I have reached the "half-time" of my life, and probably well into "third quarter" of the game.  Some would say that the "clock is my worse enemy" but in reality "time could be my best friend"!   Jesus said it well when he said, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work" (John 4:34).


I am thankful for the "time-outs" that I have left and possibly the "two-minute" warning but I don't plan to "delay the game."  However, in the second half of my life I do plan to often "take a knee" and bow before the Father because I want to finish well!

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts.  See if there is any  wicked (offensive) way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”  Psalm 139:23-24