Picking on my weakness

I've been getting back into cricket.
Bizarrely going to nets for a church team at the church where i applied for the vicar's job but didn't get it, which led to us finding the meadows, but anyway...

There's a lot God's teaching me there, but todays point is this:

In my first net the guys, who were all new to me commented on my ability to punish anything on the legside. In the bath afterwards I was reminded of a moment when only 14 or so when our coach at school took me out of the nets where i was batting and told me that i was missing every scoring opportunity that came my way. for the uninitiated, if the ball goes down your leg-side it is virtually impossible for you to out bowled or lbw so its a free hit. He then proceeded to through tennis balls at my leg-side for 10 minutes until i was hammering then round the sports hall. He then put me back in the net and told all the bowlers to bowl at my legs for 10 minutes. he repeated this for the next three practices. By the end of this time my strength was on my legs whereas before bowlers could bowl badly there without any punishment.

This really spoke to me as we've encountered a stronghold spirit of apathy in the meadows and one of my constant battles is over motivation and distraction. I could be inclined to moan and ask God why he brought me into a place where my area of weakness is allied to the local area of attack. Or i could see my loving Father as a great coach who wants me to overcome and be released.

I'm going with the latter.