God is coming to bat for you

I am a big Detroit Tiger fan and I watched last night's game on mlb.com. My Tigers were facing Roy Halliday and the Toronto Blue Jays. Halliday was the game's top pitcher last year and is following up his Cy Young Award with another great season. Needless to say we had our work cut out for us.

Halliday was pitching a gem and as the Tigers came up to bat in the bottom of the ninth they were trailing 4 -1. It looked pretty hopeless. But then a strange thing happened. Six batters came to the plate and each of them refused to make the final out of the game. Five hitters battled the pitcher and ended up slicing singles through the infield. Then Gary Sheffield walked to load the bases. With the Tigers down by one, Magglio Ordonez ripped a game winning single up the middle that won the game.

Afterwards Ordonez was asked about the game and the hit and he said "this team just doesn't give up until the last out is made. No matter how bad it looks, we keep playing. Hey. I was the eighth man to bat in the inning and you see what happened!"

It struck me that with God on our side, we can have an attitude like that too. Life may be getting the best of us but the difficulty cannot overcome of us because the victory belongs to God. So if you are struggling with a health concern, a financial burden, a broken relationship, hold on and look to God. He is coming to bat for you.

Cal