| FCA DAILY IMPACT PLAY Coach's Correction |
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| "A rebuke cuts into a perceptive person more than a hundred lashes into a fool." –Proverbs 17:10 |
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How do we respond to our coach’s correction? How do we react when a teammate tells us our technique needs improvement? The answers could reveal a lot about our character.
How deeply impressed would we be by 100 blows to our back? Pretty deeply I suppose. For athletes this may be 100 laps around the gym floor. I hope it wouldn’t take 100 to make an impression. For fools it seems that it takes 100 blows to make a good impression. For people of understanding, it takes something else.
Scripture states that a rebuke makes a greater impression on a person of understanding than running 100 laps would. One correction to a wise person is of greater effect than doing 100 up-downs. One closed-door conference with the coach goes deeper into the smart player than 100 trips up and down the bleachers. |
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| How do you respond to your coach’s correction? How do you react when a teammate tells you your technique needs improvement? When do you sense the Lord’s correction for your life? How do you respond when the Holy Spirit prompts changes in your life? |
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| Lord, I don’t want to be a fool. Help me be open to correction. Keep me from getting defensive. Let me be quick to listen and slow to speak. Please make me a person of understanding and surround me with people who desire wisdom. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. |
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| Roger Lipe has been serving as an FCA staff person for over 20 years in Southern Illinois. His full bio can be found here. |
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