I got to play miniature golf for the first time with my friends a few weeks ago now, I’m in love with basketball but golf definitely now comes close after the day at the range.
The rules in miniature golf are quite straightforward. You have 8 hits to attempt getting the ball into the hole, the less tries you take, the higher your chances of winning. The carveat with miniature golf is that for every hit you take that the ball goes out of the designated course, you lose 2 other tries.
So this means that if you hit the ball twice and it goes out of the course twice, miniature golf says you’ve had 6 hits (rather than 2) and only 2 hits left. (Brutal, I know).
I was walking to work the other morning beating myself up about missing my evening prayers 2 days in a row and God whispered and said “please you’re not playing miniature golf”.
I was laughing without understanding and then it hit me. We don’t move back 2 steps because we’ve missed prayers once. We don’t have 8 tries to get it right with God.
God doesn’t punish your laziness or complacency by increasing the steps you fall backwards. You will suffer the consequences but God has not orchestrated a system that gives you only a certain number of tries and punishes you for each time you go out of Him.
If you like, sin and go to Australia from Lagos, wide open arms still await you without you losing any tries with Him. I know it’s hard to grasp, especially in a world where most good things are governed by time and chances. But God is gracious like that.
I realise it’s even games like this that make our spiritual journey hard because we see God through the lens of what we constantly expose ourselves to.
In miniature golf, you’ll often hear your friends call out “last chance”, alerting you that you have one more try to get the ball in the hole.
With Abba, you never hear that because His love keeps no record of wrong. But hey, that God doesn’t count tries or punish our hitting out of the course, might we continue to hit off course that His grace might abound?
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You make a wonderful point, Rubie! We move away from God—by going out of bounds. He doesn’t move away from us. When we choose to come back, our loving Father accepts us with open arms. Blessings!
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Hallelujah!
That’s right David!
Thanks for reiterating that!
Trust you had an awesome weekend! Have a blessed week ahead x
Thanks for reading and engaging 🙏🏽🤎
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God is always there to help us start again 🙂
Where I live mini golf has obstacles to putt around
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Yes yes!
And haha lucky youuu😆🤎
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God is not keeping record of our wrongs against us. Thank you for your posts, I have consistently read from you since I subscribed and I have always been blessed, this is easily one of my best blogs. Thank you for always sharing, it’s a delight to read from you.
I pray that you continue to grow in your relationship with God and being a blessing. All my love♥️❤️
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This was so warm Deborah!
One of my favourite things is reading from people, so thanks for giving me a warm night.
I’m glad to know you’ve been blessed and amen to your prayer ❤️
I pray for you too, that Abba finds full expression in and through you, and that people encounter God every time they encounter you.
God bless you!
Thanks for reading and engaging ❤️
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