Halftime

IN FOOTBALL, basketball, and most sports, there is a halftime. Halftime is an extended break in the middle of a game so that the players can get themselves together. This is also a time for a coach to call in a struggling team, acknowledge the team’s performance, and encourage them to do a better job in the second half. The beauty of halftime is that there is a whole second half in which a team can turn things around.

Halftime acts as a grace period. No matter how messed up the first half might have been, the second half provides an opportunity to make things right. For many Christians, they have had a bad first half of play in the Christian life. The good news is that God gives halftimes where He calls our attention to our struggles and then sends encouragement to do a good job in the second half.

He gives us an opportunity to get ourselves together, to focus, and to do a better job than we did on the front end.