Most people outside of the baseball world have no idea who Stephen Strasburg is.\u00a0 He was selected first overall in the 2009 Amateur Baseball draft as a pitcher.\u00a0 He is very talented, but has had some arm problems since arriving in the major leagues.\u00a0 Many orthopedic surgeons attribute that to him throwing a lot of pitches and a lot of innings during his career.\u00a0 So this year the team he plays for, the Washington Nationals, decided to put him on an innings limit.\u00a0 The said he will only throw 160 innings, by the way the average number of innings thrown by a pitcher in the major leagues is around 200 or more.\u00a0 The innings limit sounded like a great idea at the beginning of the season, especially since the Nationals thought they would be good but not a great team this year.\u00a0 However, what has transpired is that they are a really good team, leading their division.\u00a0 Stephen Strasburg is their best starting pitcher, and he is nearing his 160 innings limit (127 innings pitched at the time of this writing).\u00a0 So the Nationals management is faced with a dilemma.\u00a0 Do they change their minds on the innings limit and go for the playoffs and a potential World Series title (extremely slight chance they would win it), and potentially risk Strasburg’s arm getting hurt and potentially shortening his career?\u00a0 Or do they play their best now and hope for the playoffs, stick to the innings limit for Strasburg, and build towards a brighter future?\u00a0 You know we as Christians face a similar dilemma.\u00a0 Are we going to live for the moment and enjoy the things of the world.\u00a0 Or are we going to enjoy the life God has given us here, but always look forward the eternal life to come?\u00a0 Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters…”\u00a0 Are you willing to delay full gratification now, or are you going to be an enjoy-at-all-cost person?\u00a0 It may not always be easy to wait, but if we are faithful to God and we wait, it will be worth it.\u00a0 Day by day, through His grace, may we live for Him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most people outside of the baseball world have no idea who Stephen Strasburg is.\u00a0 He was selected first overall in the 2009 Amateur Baseball draft as a pitcher.\u00a0 He is very talented, but has had some arm problems since arriving … Read More