Relentless

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
- Romans 12:1-12 NIV

As I have shared before, for a number of years, I started and coached a girl’s spring/summer travel basketball program - The Tallahassee Storm.

Though we traveled some, we tended to focus on fundamental development versus playing a national schedule (as some programs might). Thus, our kids tended to be those learning the game and developing basketball skills to be able to make their school team… or they were more developed players that didn’t want to travel that much to play and improve (or they played on another national team along with our regional team.)

Each year, we developed a t-shirt to commemorate the year. It was fun seeing them wearing them around town year’s later.

One year, our shirt said #ChaseGreat. Charging us all to chase greatness in our game and in life.

The T-shirt the year before that had one word on the front that best described the way our girls played - RELENTLESS. Though we didn’t always win, we were relentless in our effort. We relentlessly competed.

Relentless ~ continuing without becoming weaker, less severe, etc.: Remaining strict or determined: showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace : unrelenting <relentless pressure> <a relentless campaign>

However, more importantly, the back of the shirt better explained the word choice... the deeper meaning, if you would:

Storm Creed
Relentlessly striving to glorify God through:
How hard we play
How well we do
And how much fun we have doing it

I wonder what might happen if we as individuals took up this creed in our day to day activities.... in our work... in our family life... in our faith life?

Relentlessly striving to glorify God through all that we do:
How hard we play (pray, work, love)
How well we do (compete, study, work, live, love, walk as Jesus walked)
How much fun we have doing it (letting our joy shine on the world around us)

I wonder what life might be like if we lived RELENTLESS?

Keep the Faith... Carpe Diem