Being competitive is not a sin....

In fact if dealt with the right motive it becomes an asset to the Lord... This is a sample and argueably means nothing, but of the 2 Assistants to the President in our mission and the 12 zone leaders at one point, all of them, but one played competitive high school sports and a few played in college... We were all leaders and we all had an edge to ourselves... There are people who are trying to teach that being ocmpetitive is not condusive to the Spirit, but I maintain that if you are going to be valiant in the gospel then you have to be willing to battle, yes battle evil forces and not give into the competive nature of the evil one in trying to make us give up our integrity... It takes true guts to overcome a weakness of any kind and you will not be able to do it with a passive nature to deal with sin... It takes courage to be kind in all situations and control to follow the Spirit... A competitive person will not let minor aches and pains or sickness cause us to shun the work with a wimpy reason... And yet a passive person will convinced themselves that they are sick and will criticize people who are willing to go through a brick wall for there team, church or family and that was not listed in the order of importance either... I cannot believe how powerful and focus the Lord was when he was on the earth.... We saw "Secretariat" the movie and the drive to win is the grease in the wheel that brings joy into the lives of those who are driven to win and do what is right which is the same thing... I believe that the competitive ones that do evil have all kinds of chinks in their armor and really will not do everything it needs to win but will shun with fear at weak moments and then make excuses.... I love being competitive and I love the drive that is in me.... Some people look at my playing golf as foolishness but it gives me a release to air out emotions that help me cope with other things... And what is wrong with trying to improve on things in your life so you can come up a victor on whatever things you try to beat... Competition is what drives us and lack of competitiveness is luke warm or in other words not valiant... Think about it... Good night.... 39