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The St Louis Blues hockey team won their first Stanley Cup championship yesterday, winning game 7 against the Bruins in Boston. I watched only the last 8 minutes, but it’s always fun to see a team win, especially when it’s unexpected.

The Blues had the worst record in all of the NHL on January 1, 2019, having won only 15 of their first 37 games. They went on to win 30 of their last 45 regular season games, finishing third in their division. Then they won four playoff series, including the Stanley Cup Final.

Proving, once again, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.

Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. (2 Timothy 4.9, 10, ESV)

I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. (1 Timothy 1.12, 13, ESV)

O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. (Psalm 71.17, 18, ESV)

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Psalm 92.12 – 15, ESV)