Pay Attention and Persevere -- Lessons I Learned This Weekend Lesson 1, Persevere: My football team lost yesterday after 3 overtimes to a top 25 ranked team.  It was a classic David-Goliath story.  My team represents one of the smallest schools enrollment-wise in the NCAA.  Their opponent is a traditional power team from a large metro.  My team had three opportunities to win...and the kicker missed all three field goals.  But I was still proud of them and I think they have a great opportunity before them...based on how they choose to react to this. Both teams demonstrated perseverance in that game.  (I'm hoping that our kicker perseveres with his practice and learning, so he becomes the best he can be.) I thought about how games are temporary, no matter how long they are.  But if we look, we can see God working His everlasting things in these temporary instances.  So, I tried to think about what was everlasting lesson about that game, and I decided that it just might be "persevere". I know this board is about Q stuff, so here's a couple of relevant Q posts: https://qmap.pub/read/2054 https://qmap.pub/read/1432 Lesson 2, Pay Attention: This morning I read Hebrews 2.  According to the study notes, it isn't known who wrote this book of the Bible, but it is likely to be a contemporary of Paul.  But the writing style is different from Paul's, it seems to me. Anyway, Hebrews 2 opens up with "Pay Attention" . The study notes say this is related to ignoring false teachers.  So, I'm going to choose to persevere in my search for TRUTH...everlasting, immutable TRUTH. https://www.biblehub.com/niv/hebrews/2.htm