“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
John F. Kennedy
We always find out how prepared we are when the game starts. When I was playing high school football some weeks things were great and others would be better forgotten. My junior year our team was coming off one of the longest losing streaks in high school history in South Carolina. To say our team struggled was an understatement. However, things had started to turn around with our class. We were stronger and faster than players had been in the past, but there was still that aura of “losing” that surrounded our team.
About the third week of the season we were preparing for one of the best teams we would face all year. They were fast, strong and talented. They played together as a unit and had not lost many games over the past few years. That week of practice we worked extremely hard. The came game night. When someone made a tackle, there were five other guys hovering in position to clean up the mess if the first guy had missed.
Things were clicking for us on offense. We ended up pulling off the upset and that really gave our team a lot of momentum and would prove to help us get into the playoffs that year.
The success our team was able to achieve didn’t come overnight. But, in the hard times we kept working. When we were tired, we kept working. In the off-season after we lost all of the games the season before, we kept working. During the summer, when our friends were at the beach, we were at the school working out and conditioning. We were running routes and studying plays. We did everything we could to get better. Had we waited until August to start preparing for the season, we definitely would have been slower, weaker, out-of-shape and not prepared for the season. It would have been too late to get all the wrinkles worked out. It would be like waiting on the rain to fix the leak in the roof.
The time to get ready for the challenges that lay ahead is today. What are you preparing for? What has God called you to do?