Be God's Pro 🏀
Humility | Growth | Professional Faith | Kingdom Excellence | Spiritual Maturity
The Training Truth 💯 I have been a basketball trainer and coach for a while now. During that time, the demographic I hate working with the most is semi-successful college players.
Many (not all), in this group have had just enough success to assume they have it figured out. Since that is their mindset, once they taste just a small bit of success, they abandon the path and the people that guided them to success and as it relates to hiring a trainer, they do not want a caring coach that passionately guides down the path to better, but instead they desire a careless cheerleader that tells them how great they are, even when they are not so great - I believe this is what my young fellas call, "glazing."
The Pro Difference 🏆 On the other hand, when I have worked out with pro hoopers, believe it or not, despite accomplishing far more than the college guys, they are more humble, coachable and they embrace true coaching that challenges and guides to better. In fact, I have had pro clients who have expressed to me before hiring me that they are not looking for a cheerleader that is just going to tell them how great they are, and if that's what I was going to do, they'd fire me.
These pros shared with me that, the road to not only being a pro player, but to remaining one is a narrow road that they cannot travel without continued guidance.
The Kingdom Parallel 👑 For many of the college guys I work with that prefer the cheerleader that never challenges, because they think they have acquired enough success to have everything figured out, will never reach their competitive potential simply because they lack the humility of a (true) pro.
For many, as they navigate this world, they do so like the college kids I work with that, while they have the potential to be all God called them to be and do all God called them to do, will also fall short, simply because they choose to live like an amateur and not a professional.
The Challenge 🔥 What about you? Are you God's pro - walking with God allowing Him to lead and guide with a spiritually intelligent and humble heart, knowing that regardless of all the success you have, still you need not rely on your own understanding, strength and heart.
Pro Tip Be God's Pro! And as you are, remember the pro tip from the pro hoopers I trained: "the road to not only being God's pro, but to remaining His pro is a narrow road that you cannot travel without His continued guidance."
Relevant Verses:
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 27:5-6 (TPT) - "It's better to be corrected openly if it stems from hidden love. You can trust a friend who wounds you with his honesty, but your enemy's pretended flattery comes from insincerity."
1 Corinthians 4:7 (MSG) - "For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn't everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God?"
Matthew 7:13-14 (NLT) - "You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it."
Real Talk Reflection 💭
Are you living with amateur humility or professional pride?
What "semi-success" in your life might be making you think you have it figured out?
Are you seeking coaches who challenge you or cheerleaders who flatter you?
Where have you abandoned the path or people that guided you to success?
What would it look like to be "God's pro" in your current season?
Power Move Prayer 🙏🏾 Lord, keep us humble no matter how much success You bless us with. Help us choose coaches over cheerleaders, truth over flattery. Give us professional hearts that know we always need Your guidance on this narrow road. Don't let semi-success make us abandon the path that got us here.
Sounds For Your Spirit 🎧 "What Can I Do" - Tye Tribbett "I Need You Now" - Smokie Norful
[Remember: The higher you go, the more you need guidance. Be God's pro, not God's amateur.]