Roping Religion: Remember what is ahead

Many of the ideas and scriptures for this article are from the devotional "God Wants You To Win!" by world-champion calf roper Jeff Copenhaver.

Philippians 3:13-14 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

In Jeff's story about overcoming humiliation he told how he was competing in several rodeos all at about the same time so he didn't have his horse Streak with him when h...