Matthew 6:25-26 (ESV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your
life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you
will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Connie Mack was one of the greatest managers in the
history of baseball. One of the secrets of his success was that he knew how to
lead and inspire men. He knew that people were individuals. Once, when his team
had clinched the pennant well before the season ended, he gave his two best
pitchers the last ten days off so that they could rest up for the World Series.
One pitcher spent his ten days off at the ball park; the other went fishing.
Both performed brilliantly in the World Series. Mack never critcized a player
in front of anyone else. He learned to wait 24 hours before discussing mistakes
with players. Otherwise, he said, he dealt with goofs too emotionally.
In the first three years as a major league baseball
manager, Connie Mack's teams finished sixth, seventh, and eighth. He took the
blame and demoted himself to the minor leagues to give himself time to learn
how to handle men. When he came back to the major leagues again, he handled his
players so successfully that he developed the best teams the world had ever
known up to that time.
Mack had another secret of good management: he didn't
worry. "I discovered," he explained, "that worry was threatening
to wreck my career as a baseball manager. I saw how foolish it was and I forced
myself to get so busy preparing to win games that I had no time left to worry
over the ones that were already lost. You can't grind grain with water that has
already gone down the creek."
That is an important lesson for each of us, don’t worry.
I know that is a tough lesson for me and I still work on that daily. We need to
remember that God is in control.
Dear Lord, we thank You that Your hand is in everything
and we don’t have to worry. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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