If I had to choose between my wife and my putter... well, I’d miss her.
Restarting the Game
For Christ died for sin once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. 1 Peter 3:18Nduka Odizor, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon in the early 1980s was about to play a match in a grass-court tournament in Holland when he noticed that his opponent was upset about something. "I overheard him say that he had been unable to get a pair of grass court shoes and as a result he was slipping all over the place. I offered to lend him a pair of mine. My opponent's face dropped in astonishment. He was probably thinking, 'How could anyone be so stupid?' It was written all over his face. 'Here's my hotel key,' I said, 'if you want to go and get them or send someone for them.' When our match was called there he was, wearing my shoes!"
Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2
When sin entered the world and even more so when we welcome it into our lives, it spoiled everything - including sport and how we play it. The good news is that through the death of Jesus Christ, sin is defeated. God sent his son into the world and he was the only one who never sinned. When he died he took our punishment for sin from God, in order to save us from that punishment on the day when God judges the world. If we accept what Christ has done, we can be sure of eternal life in heaven with Him and meanwhile our lives will, by the presence of the Holy Spirit, gradually, but never perfectly, be restored to what God intended.
When we allow God to take control of our lives, all the flawed things – including playing sport - start to get mended. God starts to address them and work inside us. He starts to deal with things and the Holy Spirit speaks to us as through the Bible, he challenges us about things in our life, which are not right. This applies to everything in our lives, including how we play against the right winger.