I don't know if you are familiar with the game of Cribbage. When playing a hand of Crib, you are dealt 6 (or 5) cards. The idea to to keep cards in your hand that are the same number, runs of three or more cards, or cards that are all the same suit or that add up to 15 points. Of the six cards you are dealt, you are allowed to keep four of them. You want to keep as many points as you can in your hand so you make the best choices you can. After both players have chosen hands then the deck is cut and one more card is selected. The card that is turned up becomes part of both players hands. As you can imagine that extra card can be quite significant. It can be the difference between a four point hand and twenty point hand.
Sometimes the card cut favours one player, sometimes the other, sometimes neither, and sometimes both. There are games when you can't seem to get a card you want cut. There are days when you seemingly play every card perfectly but you never seem to get the cut so you never win. There are other days when, no matter how poorly you play, you can't lose for winning just because you keep getting the cut.
I have one friend of mine, when he is ahead will often say, 'this game is in the bag' before the card is cut. The cut then changes everything and we discover that the game was not 'in the bag' after all.
This is similar to what James is saying in today's text. We don't know what is going to turn up in life. We just need to do the best we can with the cards we are dealt and have faith that eventually the card we need will be turned up.And so let us each then play the hands we have been dealt in such a way that we can do good for each other at every turn and then we will all win.
Sometimes the card cut favours one player, sometimes the other, sometimes neither, and sometimes both. There are games when you can't seem to get a card you want cut. There are days when you seemingly play every card perfectly but you never seem to get the cut so you never win. There are other days when, no matter how poorly you play, you can't lose for winning just because you keep getting the cut.
I have one friend of mine, when he is ahead will often say, 'this game is in the bag' before the card is cut. The cut then changes everything and we discover that the game was not 'in the bag' after all.
This is similar to what James is saying in today's text. We don't know what is going to turn up in life. We just need to do the best we can with the cards we are dealt and have faith that eventually the card we need will be turned up.And so let us each then play the hands we have been dealt in such a way that we can do good for each other at every turn and then we will all win.
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