PICK IT UP YOURSELF
Murphy’s Law reads, “if anything can go wrong, it will.” But someone said, “Murphy was an optimist.” In 1916, Georgia Tech University in Atlanta played a football game against Cumberland University, a tiny law school. The Tech team was a mighty football powerhouse and rolled over Cumberland by a score of 222 to 0. Tech pretty much beat the Cumberland players to a pulp, too. Toward the end of the game, Cumberland quarterback Ed Edwards fumbled a snap from center. As the Tech linemen charged into his backfield, Edwards yelled to his backs, “Pick it up! Pick it up!” Edward’s fullback, seeing the monsters rush in who had battered him all day, yelled back, “Pick it up yourself–you dropped it.” That fullback was tired of being beaten to a pulp. We know what he felt like. Sometimes Life does that to us, too. Life is difficult. It was difficult for Jesus as well. That is why he has such compassion…
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