When former Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze made his first appearance after resigning as the team’s coach, he spoke at Liberty. “I had to say to people that I loved, ‘I am sorry, please forgive me,” Coach Hugh Freeze said during the Liberty University’s Convocation. “And today is really the first day I can tell the faith family I am sorry; please forgive me.” He was accompanied by his wife, Jill, and their pastor, Chip Henderson. “My world got rocked in 2017, and all the walls came crumbling down,” Freeze said. “In what I thought was a private sin that I had struggled with, confessed to my wife, to two of my friends in 2016, what I thought was private, became public knowledge in July of 2017.”

 Hugh Freeze began to question whether his faith was real and ask himself if he could come back from a struggle in sin and brokenness. “When my walls came crumbling down around me, the faith that I stand on through the son of God, Jesus Christ,” Freeze said. “It is a solid rock. A solid foundation. And when all hell is breaking loose around you, and everybody has their opinion about what is going on, and you know that you’ve hurt the heart of God, His love never changes. Ever.”

 Romans 7 – Confess Your Sins

 Hugh Freeze is not the only believer to struggle with sin; even the Apostle Paul struggled with sin! Near the end of Romans 7, Paul refers to himself as “Wretched man that I am!” (7:24). The term “wretched” means “suffering, afflicted, miserable.” While Paul hated sin, no amount of hate was enough for him to avoid it altogether. If coaches and athletes compete in this world, they will continue to struggle with sin. While this battle wages within us, we need to remember that Jesus has won the war!

 The Kingdom Coach and Athlete understand spiritual maturity flows from understanding and applying biblical truth. When they stumble and fall, they confess their sins to God (1 John 1:9). From start to finish, they believe the Christian life must be lived by faith. Through faith, they are united with Christ. Through faith, they benefit from a restored relationship with Christ for spiritual growth.

Journaling helps you understand and respond to the Bible. As you journal, use the acronym HEAR to Highlight, Explain, Apply, and Respond to what you have read in the reading plan.

Bible Memory Verse – But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39 LSB

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