Roger Clemens and the Baseball god

Roger Clemens is considered by many to be the greatest baseball pitcher of our generation. The last few days he has been testifying before congress about alleged steroid abuse. Steroids can help an aging pitcher recover more quickly and even get stronger. Using steroids is cheating. Roger Clemens was a great pitcher before he ever was accused of taking steroids. I watched some of the questioning on ESPN. I don't think any of the congressmen asked the right question. Someone should have asked Roger if there was anything more important to him than baseball. He appeared to me to care about little else. He claimed to be adamantly against steroid use but allowed his trainer to inject his wife so she could pose for Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Another pitcher testified this week. His name is Andy Pettite. During his testimony he said he was a Christian. He admitted to taking steroids during one stretch of his career. He apologized, said it was wrong, and told everyone he was obligated because of his commitment to Jesus Christ to tell the truth. Andy Pettite has something more important than baseball. During one stretch of his career he let baseball become the most important thing and so he served it like a slave and took steroids so he would not lose the most important thing. He has come clean and repented. Roger Clemens on the other hand seems to be still tenaciously clinging to baseball as his god and it looks like the god he served is about to abandon him. If baseball really was a god for Roger Clemens then I think it makes perfect sense that he took steroids. As this thing unfolds I find myself praying for Roger because a man is never more vulnerable to the work of the real God than when he is losing a god he has served for most of his life. I have to admit too that I live in a world chock full of gods who clamor for my allegiance. But I am reminded again during congressional hearings that there is only one good God. There is only one God that instead of demanding my life from me has given his life for me. What a God we serve.