The Secret to Golf

I think that I've finally figured out the secret to a great golf game. For many years, people have tried to figure out the secret to getting that little white ball into that cup. I've had the great joy of playing a couple of rounds here lately and I think that I've figured out the secret to it all: consistency.

When you watch players on the PGA Tour, what they possess that you and I don't have a lot of is consistency. If you can learn to be consistent with your clubs, then your game will massively improve. When you are consistent with your clubs, how your strike the ball, where you line up, how you swing and place the ball, then you are at the top of your game. I love to golf and I've hit a 91, 96, and 92 my last 3 times out. Maybe we're starting to see a little consistency.

The worse part of golf is when you don't play for a while. You kind of have to relearn your feel and how you swing and hit. You feel off-kilter and out of touch with everything.

The same is so true in the Christian life. When you quit reading God's Word everyday, when you quit praying, and when you quit attending church regularly and doing the things in the Christian walk that you know that you need to be doing, you feel off-kilter and out of touch. You will not perform well in the Christian life if you have no consistency to your walk. You must do the daily work and work hard at it, just like you would for any sport.

If you've ever sat back and watched someone succeed and do well in their Christian faith, know that it didn't happen overnight. It was because of a personal pattern of consistency in the spiritual disciplines that they could be all that God wanted them to be. If you see people that God uses is great ways and you want the same, it all starts with some consistency in your walk. Then you are allowing God to pour into you and use you to His fullest intent. (Ephesians 2:10 "We are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.")