Spring Training has finished. All the games played up to this point do not matter. Players have spent the spring working on the fundamentals and learning. Now the long season begins and everything counts and everyone starts equal.
What you did last year, this spring, yesterday, doesn’t matter. What you did yesterday will not determine the game today. Each game is a do over in this long season of baseball. Every spring optimism is abundant within every player and every team. Scott O’Connell, director of new ballpark development for the Minnesota Twins, told me recently, “Optimism is what every team has during spring training. Reality is what every team knows by July.”
Every player strives to get ready during spring training, but at the same time the veterans know that the games don’t count and the real season begins with Opening Day. Players that have struggled all spring will play like All-Stars today. Players with great springs will struggle today. The Good News is that today, like each day stretched out this season, will offer the opportunity for redemption. An at-bat following an inning with an error. A fielding chance after striking out. And a game tomorrow after today's loss.
The day after Easter is the beginning of season as Christ-followers. What will you do with the resurrection? Everything up to this point was a dress rehearsal for this moment. God’s plan for salvation and relationship was finished and now it is up to us to respond. What will you do in this season after Easter?
It doesn't matter what has taken place in the past.
Today everything is new. So, Batter up!
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