Poor Charlie Brown! How would you like to have his life? He is never invited to parties, doesn't get any valentines and he always seems to mess things up. His team never wins a ball game and everybody calls him a blockhead! What a life! Charlie Brown keeps thinking that one day things will change for him. One of his goals is to finally kick the football! Lucy has always told Charlie Brown that she will hold the football so he can kick it. The problem is that just as he gets up to the football she yanks the football out of the way and Charlie Brown goes flying up in the air and lands on the ground. In the beginning of It's The Great pumpkin Charlie Brown, she makes the same offer. He refuses because he knows what she would do. This time she hands him a paper that says she will let him actually kick it this time. He looks at the paper and she tells him it is a contract. He starts to think about it and convinces himself that this time was different. Guess what? It wasn't! He makes up his mind to go for it and just as he gets to the ball, Lucy once again yanks it away and Charlie Brown goes flying one more time and lands with Lucy standing over him. It is then he realizes that she never signed the contract! Once again Charlie Brown has failed to kick the football and have others laugh at him.
Some folks are more like Charlie Brown than they wish to admit to being. I am like him sometimes. You see people have things in their lives that they constantly strive to overcome and never seem to be able to "kick the football". They keep trying time and time again but always end up with the same result. They miss the ball and fall flat on their backs. Someone always seem to pull the ball away and they fail. The results are always the same because the ball or the person holding it never changes. Growing up I was told doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Israel in their history kept doing the same thing and got the same results. They would fall away and God would punish them for their sin until they cried out and He would deliver them again. Before any of us throw the proverbial stones, let us remind ourselves that we often do the same thing. The only way to change and finally get victory is to change the holder. Let us depend on God's strength and His power and we can change. You see God will never pull the ball but He will encourage us as we run towards the ball or task He has for us to do. He has plans to prosper us not to hurt us. When God is holding the ball, kick away! You cannot lose!
One day Charlie Brown might get smart and say no to Lucy. If he was really smart, he would get Linus to hold the ball since Linus is his true friend. Who is holding your ball?
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