Life
is Like a Basketball Game
The game of life is played on a team
Your team
mates are fellow Christians
Perhaps
people in your small group or life group
Or people
in your family
My team is
my best friend and mom
And
several other people who sub in and out from time to time
The
basketball can represent many things
It can be
the words of scripture that you pass around to each other
To
encourage each other
It may
simply be words of affirmation to build each other up
Scoring
points in the game is like when you save someone
Or when
you all help to make the world a better place
I felt
this most on my mission trip to India and Taiwan
We were a
very tight knit team
With a
common goal
To save
the lost
And there
was so much energy
A kinetic
energy like lightning between/ among us all
Pushing us
on in the game
Your coach
is like the Holy Spirit
He is your
conscious encouraging you, give you wisdom
The
referee is like God
If you
don't listen to your coach the Holy Spirit
God the
referee will put you in check
He will
call you out when you are doing something wrong
And
correct you through various means
The other
team
Well, the
other team is non-Christians
Who try to
oppose your efforts
People who
ridicule you for trying to live for God
People who
don't want you to save people
And they
certainly don't want you to save them
People who
try to put out your light
People who
are spiteful and mean and cut throat
But God
the referee keeps them in check too
He won't
let them get too out of hand in trying to attack you
As
Scripture says, "No temptation has overtaken you
except
what is common to mankind.
And God is
faithful;
he will
not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when
you are tempted,
he will
also provide a way out so that you can endure it."
This can
apply to any kind of temptation to sin.
This is
where people get the phrase,
"God
doesn't give us more then we can handle."
The other
team can also be demons at times
This is an
invisible team opposing us every day
They
wisper discouraging words in our ears
Try to get
us to stop playing
To sit on
the bench for awhile
To give
up.
Their
coach is Satan of course
He tells
them what to do
They try
to strike fear into us so our shot will be off
They try
to yell at us and mock us to throw off our game
They even
try to pit us against each other sometimes
Those
little jerks.
They know
a house divided cannot stand
So they
try to breed resentment and bitterness and jealousy between us
They try
to dis-unify us
But we
have to fight them off, pray them off, rebuke them off
The points
they win are those who "sell their souls to Satan"
This
phenomenon is real, it actually happens, believe it or not.
The crowd
in the game is everyone else in the world,
Watching
you
Some of
them are cheering for you
And some
are cheering for the other team
You can
pretty much always tell
Who is
cheering for you
People who
encourage you
People who
tell you how special you are
That you
are capable to doing great things for God
That God
can use you in this crazy game of life
People who
believe in you
Believe
that you can win the game
Believe
that God can win the game through you.
And that is how life is like a
basketball game. :) Hope you liked it! God bless!
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