I love college football. I am a total South Carolina Gamecocks fan. The Gamecocks played the Bulldogs this past Saturday night. When all is said and done, Carolina produces another loss. I’m totally emotionally disturbed that we could not convert in the end zone second half and in particular the final seconds of the game. We were in the RED ZONE and couldn’t convert. To say the very least I was not pleased. I was ready to stomp on my jersey and pull for another team. Can you say overreaction? But here’s the deal, as I was enjoying my temper tantrum, God really spoke to me. I remember when I didn’t expect the Gamecocks to be competitive. There was a time I would have been thrilled with a loss to UGA that was high scoring offensive game and only four points difference in the end. The thing is, that’s just not acceptable. Let’s face it, we don’t play competitive sports without winning being the priority. Yet, how many of us professing Christians are accumulating losses instead of victories. We think it’s acceptable just to show up on Sunday. We think it’s okay not to spend time in God’s Word. We expect our favorite teams to have done the work during the week in order to place them in the best possible position to win yet we don’t do the same with the most important “game” of all. If we are on God’s team so to speak then we should be doing everything we can to prepare ourselves and get in the game of spreading God’s Word through the example of our lives and dedication to service. We should be pumped for the game. We have the greatest stakes but we approach it so passively. We should be crazy hungry for a win every day. The definition of win is transformed lives!
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