God: my biggest "Fan"
*Note: I've been meaning to post this for a while... just forgot!*
Bare with me on this analogy, but the other day when i was in the shower, i started thinking about a sports scenario involving the recently completed NBA finals. Yeah, yeah, i know, the lakeshow lost, whatever, that’s not the point.
i pictured myself yelling at the television, disgusted at the performance of my team. When you are that big of a fan of a team, you feel part of it, so of course you would want your team to perform and eventually win! However, my luck wasn’t so great and instead i watched fundamental breakdowns such as poor defense by Sasha Vujacic (Really? You’re just gonna let Ray Allen do you like that? THAT easily?) and in the end, that put us behind 3-1 in the series which eventually snow balled into coming up short on a championship.
This is going somewhere, i promise!!!!!!
Here is where it got real. That’s when i got the exact same image… but God was the one sitting on the couch, and his frustration was with me. i’m the team he watches! Let us think about that!
i MISS KEY FUNDAMENTALS, SIMPLE KEY FUNDAMENTALS EVERY DAY
Examples: 1)Relying first on God. i so often try to man up and do it myself
2)Praising Him, i often just ask him for things
3) Diligent reading of His Word
4) passing judgment
That's just a few of them
Will it cost me my “championship,” which would be the Kingdom of Heaven?
i mean, no one knows, not until death at least… but still, i don’t want to take that lightly.
i can just picture God! “Watch the weak side Phil!”
“Are you serious? Move your feet! Play defense!!!!! This isn’t a scrimmage!”
Or even worse… when He puts someone in front of me so obviously: “you’re open!!! I passed you the ball, now shoot! Make a play!”
i know that no one is perfect, but heck, “Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matt 7:14). With that known, and with me being well aware of areas that i have been working on, i definitely need to “train” hard in order to be ready to make some plays!
After all, i wouldn’t want to disappoint my biggest Fan now… would i?!
-P.No