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In this year's voting for players to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame, sluggers were absent from the list. The sports writers, who are responsible for determining eligibility, were leery of admitting anyone who was suspected of using steroids to enhance his performance. Hall chairman Jane Forbes Clark noted that it will be decades for sluggers from the Steroids Era to be evaluated in context with their predecessors.
Those players who used steroids worshiped an "unknown god." Instead of depending upon their God-given abilities and talent, they chose to turn to a god made of human hands. And in so doing there was judgment upon their actions. Their records may always have an asterisk beside them. They sacrificed themselves before the dead altar of vanity rather than the living altar of humility.
Let us be sure our performance in life reflects the worship of our living God, which will be seen in lives lived in honesty, integrity, and humility.
Those players who used steroids worshiped an "unknown god." Instead of depending upon their God-given abilities and talent, they chose to turn to a god made of human hands. And in so doing there was judgment upon their actions. Their records may always have an asterisk beside them. They sacrificed themselves before the dead altar of vanity rather than the living altar of humility.
Let us be sure our performance in life reflects the worship of our living God, which will be seen in lives lived in honesty, integrity, and humility.
