October 26, 2020 – Click here to listen
I’ve always been a huge fan of football legend Hershel Walker. If you asked 100 American football fans to name the most impressive ever to play the game, most would put Herschel Walker on the short list. Walker, now 58, had a prolific three-year college career at Georgia. He rushed for 5,259 yards and 49 touchdowns in 33 games and is widely considered one of the best college football players ever. And then he went to the NFL and continued galloping.
A humble young man from Wrightsville, GA, he exploded onto the scene in 1980, leading the University of Georgia to the national championship and setting a NCAA freshman record for rushing. The recipient of All-American honors during each of his college years, he set 41 school records, 16 Southeastern Conference records and 11 NCAA records. In his junior year, 1982, he won the prestigious Heisman Trophy.
Being a Dawg fan it was delightful to watch him gallop into the end zone bowling people over and running with the speed of a gazelle. One of my prized possessions is a personally inscribed autographed helmet from him with my life’s verse on it, Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
He has stayed true to the Lord and gives him all the glory for his achievements in life and this verse has served him well.
Walker has been an outspoken supporter of the president. During an appearance at the Republican National Convention in August, Walker said he developed a “deep, personal friendship” with Trump dating back to 1984, when the president purchased the New Jersey Generals of the now-defunct United States Football League.
He bristles when someone from the left calls President Trump a racist stating: “People who think that about him don’t know what they are talking about. Growing up in the Deep South, I have seen racism up close. I know what it is.
And it isn’t Donald Trump.”
He has campaigned for Trump and gets hassled for being a black man and supporting him. As a Christian the color of his skin makes no difference to him. God is what makes the difference to Hershel Walker. Recently he remarked: “Someone today said, Herschel you got to trust the science,” something they got from Joe Biden. And I said, ‘Oh, what scientist are you going to trust? Because different scientists are saying different things. Different doctors are saying different things,” he then added: “Why don’t you trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ? There’s only one of those.”
Good question Hershel – Now if they would just listen. God even showed the prophet Isaiah that the earth was round centuries ago. It’s a shame Joe Biden does not embrace the Word of God and he would understand when it comes to the sanctity of life, telling the truth, and honesty that he should go that course.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in