ONE MORE SHOT!

September 19, 2014

One thing that easily frustrates is when trying to do something and results seem not to be coming as expected. I can imagine someone who has been trying to secure an admission into a university for more than three to four years without no headway, that person would easily want to just forget about what he wants and go for what is available, so that he could stop wasting his own time.

But when you look at the game of basketball, you would see that when a player loses a shot, he goes for a rebound as many times as possible. Even when a team is losing, they never walk out of the court, they all keep shooting and going for rebound with the HOPE that some, if not all of those shots would produce the result they need. In life, we have all heard it that quitters don’t win and winners don’t quit, in order words, if you want to ever be successful, as much as it seems not to be working, give it one more shot!

After Peter had gone through a time of fruitless toiling for more than eight hours (the scripture says all through the night). He must have cast the net for more than a hundred times, but then Jesus told him, cast your net again. Peter did accordingly even though he had some reservations, but the scripture records it that the harvest of that day was so much that his net started tearing apart. (Luke 5:5-7)

The woman with the issue of blood had given it countless number of shots (she has visited physicians, magicians etc) and she could have decided to just die with the sickness but she instead gave it one more shot by touching the hem of Jesus’ garment which was the shot that set her free. Friends, give that exam one more shot, give that marriage one more shot, give that business one more shot, because I believe that the next shot would score you a goal.

Keep shooting!

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