Good Morning,
It seems as if I hit the floor dressed and ready for a fast trip for work. Today I chose to drink some hot Door County Smore's Coffee and it tastes delicious.
On Saturday a few of us will join hundreds of people for a charity trap shoot to raise money for Cancer research and a cure. We will be shooting 50 targets at stations along a given path. Each station is different and the difficulty ranges from somewhat easy to very difficult. Known as "Sporting Clays" I have seen grown men miss and immediately blame their shot gun and want to sell it at the end of the day.
Side bets are being made between teams that will also benefit the cause. For instance some folks are throwing down some cash and are having their teams pay an extra dollar for every target they miss. The challenge also has plenty of people doing a 25 cent penalty per miss.
The targets break when they are hit from a shotgun blast aimed at the moving flying clay saucer. If you miss, you miss. It doesn't matter if you were within an inch of hitting the target or if you missed by a mile. You missed. No one else missed for you. You own the miss.
Romans 3:23-24 All have sinned, All fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet now God in His gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins.
The Hebrew word for sin literally means "missing the mark". We can come close to reaching the moral mark set by God, but close is not good enough. God does not embrace anything less than perfect. But God, is a loving God as well as being perfect and faultless. That is why He provided a way for you to hit more targets as well as for you and I to avoid a penalty when we miss the target. When you miss the moral mark or target, ask God for His forgiveness and learn from your mistake, and move to the next stand in life. In learning from your misses you can adjust a life in such a way that the hits are fewer that the misses.
God bless,
Marty
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