In my younger years, I loved baseball.  I played, watched, I lived baseball.  The one thing I miss most about my younger years is not being able to play baseball.  Now that I am older I physically couldn’t play anymore.  My knees are shot.  My ankles are shot.  My eyes couldn’t see the ball coming well enough.

The day I was thinking about the game and I wondered what did I learn from playing the game.  I am going to start a series of post about what I learned playing baseball and here come the first three.

Number one, be a student of the game.  As a ballplayer, I was always trying to learn more about the game.  For example, what is a common strategy when there are runners on first and third with one out in the top of the fifth.  How does what you do in the top of the fifth change when its the top of the ninth.  I needed and wanted to be a student of the game.

In Christianity and life in general, we need to be “students of the game.”  How does life “work?”  What does a good friend look like?  How can I be a good friend?  What is God really like? Where do I go to find out the answers to these questions?  Will I be able to accept the answers to my queries?  In our lives, we need to constant learners.  We need to study the game.