Red Sox Trikot

     I have to admit that I found it funny, very funny, since I am a Red Sox fan.  I am referring to the Red Sox Jersey that was buried in the new Yankee Stadium. A construction worker attempting to plant the Red Sox "Curse" in the new Yankee Stadium by burying a David Ortiz jersey.  Now, if you are a Yankee fan, would you leave it there?  Of course not.  It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete.  The things we will do to get rid of that which we hate.

     The story has spiritual implications we can relate to.  The things that are not of God are our enemy and some of them lie buried deep within us.  What will we do with them?  Leave them alone and live with them there or jackhammer them out. Just as a Yankee cannot have anything "Red Sox" around, we as believers cannot have those things in us that are not of God.

     It is a daily decision to deal with these things and sometimes we even have to take some time to locate, drill, and extract.  It is the price that at times has to be paid to live a life of Holiness.