Is Your Life Worth Watching?

The best game to watch always has the best defense and offense.

It’s like life. Imagine if all you did was win with no resistance or challenge that would be boring and you actually wouldn't grow. What is the definition of strength? It is “the capacity of an object or substance to withstand great force or pressure”. Let’s get right down to it. How strong are you? How strong are you physically? How strong are you mentally? How strong are you spiritually? We have to accept that life is a game and it is a sport. Do you want to play on the field or look at the players from the stands? If you’re reading this my guess is that you want to be on the field to WIN.

The best books I have read was the one when the defense sometimes gets over on the offense. You always want to watch a game where there is tension and challenge. That is where people are glued to their TV. You want a championship atmosphere. Every day is an opportunity to win the Championship, to win the PRIZE.

How do we win? We have to see what our strengths and weaknesses are. We have to double down on our strengths and see how we can strengthen our weaknesses so they will not counter all the progress we have made with our strengths. Believe me, our enemy knows our strengths and weaknesses, as it says in the word he is a lion waiting for someone to devour. He has a STRATEGY. So that means that we have to have our STRATEGY as well. This is why I always say we have to have our morning routine. This is the primer and the bumper (like the bumper for the car it minimizes damage for collision) for the day. The morning routine of being in God’s word and prayer. I myself also add meditation, working out or yoga to the mix. Once I am finished with my routine I have primed my brain, I have renewed my mind to God’s way and not the world’s way. After that, I have built my strength and primed myself so that if any negative thing happens I already have the right mindset so it won’t affect me as much. I will be in solution mode rather than reaction. I have sharpened my axe.

The football players have to memorize their playbook in order to be on the field and run the plays. So as followers as Christ we should also have a couple of verses we memorize or at least hold in our heart so before we go into battle we can recite them to ourselves or in prayers. The enemy knows the word so we should too. This will truly give us strength because it gives us God's strength, not our own. We can’t do that much or anything on our own. As it says in John 15:5 “apart from me you can do nothing”. We truly can’t do anything extraordinary without God.

I was watching the Yankee game, I kept seeing Aaron Judge, the Yankee’s right fielder, look into his cap before a new player came to bat. I realized that the players now have a chart in their cap of how to play each batter. The defense had a strategy on how to play the offense and vice versa. The quarterback looks at his wrist for the play call. This is what God wants us to do before each day, before each opportunity, before each meeting before each conversation. We have to ask God for the play call. We have to ask God, God how should I play this? How do you want me to go about this? It’s God’s will not ours. We have to ask him for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding and from there we can build things that will stand the test of time. As it says in Proverbs 3:19 “ By wisdom the LORD laid the earth’s foundations by understanding he set the heavens in place.”

Whether watching football or any sport, think about the Bible and life. How can we apply these strategies to our own lives? Think about the strategies they need in order to succeed on the defense and offense.

God called us to be on the offense but the enemy is always there playing defense. Our playbook is the Bible and when we go according to our playbook like the athletes we know what route to run and play because we have already been trained.

Amen.

“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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:13-14‬ ‭NIV‬‬