Have you ever watched a football game (or, feel free to insert your favorite sport here) that you already know the outcome of?
We don’t have a lot of time to watch football – boo! – but we’ve tried a few times to record a game, and then go back and watch it, especially if we heard it was a good game. Know what we discovered? It’s really hard to drum up the same excitement we would have had if the game was live, even when we didn’t know the score!
Now imagine if you were a player on one of the teams, and somehow, we could know the ending score…and your team won’t win. I have so many alternate reality questions – how would my flagging enthusiasm affect my play, and then would the final outcome be different? Or would cosmic forces intervene and make the score end up right? But I digress…
The high school I went to had, at that time, a weak football team. We loved them anyway, for the record, but we were pretty sensitive about the fact that we rarely won games.
Is my post all about football today? No, it’s about the reality that Christ won a victory for all time on the cross. That’s a reality, not just an abstract idea. The team the enemy and all his minions play for has already been defeated; as a believer, that reality needs to be the starting point for me as I think about spiritual things. Satan may be powerful, but I don’t need to have any fear.
I’ll end with this from Neil: Affirming the truth of Christ’s victory and Satan’s defeat is the primary step to successfully combating the enemy’s attempts to intimidate you and hassle you.
No comments:
Post a Comment