Lyle Alzado was once the...
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Lyle Alzado was once the terror of the National Football League. He was a maniac on the field, outrunning and out-hitting everyone else. Whether he played for Denver or Cleveland or Oakland, the opposing quarterbacks feared him as he came crashing through to sack them again and again.
Alzado was always fast, but he was not always big. He did not have the size to play with a major college team; the only college team that would take him was tiny Yankton College in South
Dakota. Then one day he discovered something called steroids. He began taking them along with working out and lifting weights. In a relatively short time he raised his weight from 190 pounds to 300 pounds of solid muscle.
He became a wild man on the field and off the field. He kept taking steroids and increasing the dosage; also he began to mix different types. He was hooked, and he knew it. Nonetheless, he denied he was using steroids to all who questioned him.
By 1991, at the age of 42, he landed in the hospital with cancer of the brain, caused doctors suspected by his inordinate use of steroids.
We are all often tempted to circumvent legitimate discipline in our physical and spiritual lives. It is the easy way out. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews admonishes us rather to seek "the discipline of the Lord" which may seem painful at first rather than pleasant, but eventually yields "the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
--Hasler
Alzado was always fast, but he was not always big. He did not have the size to play with a major college team; the only college team that would take him was tiny Yankton College in South
Dakota. Then one day he discovered something called steroids. He began taking them along with working out and lifting weights. In a relatively short time he raised his weight from 190 pounds to 300 pounds of solid muscle.
He became a wild man on the field and off the field. He kept taking steroids and increasing the dosage; also he began to mix different types. He was hooked, and he knew it. Nonetheless, he denied he was using steroids to all who questioned him.
By 1991, at the age of 42, he landed in the hospital with cancer of the brain, caused doctors suspected by his inordinate use of steroids.
We are all often tempted to circumvent legitimate discipline in our physical and spiritual lives. It is the easy way out. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews admonishes us rather to seek "the discipline of the Lord" which may seem painful at first rather than pleasant, but eventually yields "the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
--Hasler
