What fun it is to have a local guy, Pierre Garcon, starting in this year’s Superbowl for the Indianapolis Colts, We all know he didn’t grow up in Alliance, but since he starred at Mount Union, we’ll claim him gladly
This is the weekend registering the fewest weddings, the highest antacid sales and the most call offs from work the following day.
Yet it’s the Superbowl commercials that are even more popular than the big game itself. Fifty-eight percent of viewers surveyed claim to take bathroom breaks during the game versus the commercials.
I’m a lot more into the “Superbowl Of The Spirit.” This is really the biggest game in town since our spirits last for eternity; and the game will go a couple of hours. How many of us can even remember who won the Superbowl five years ago?
The great apostle, Paul, was talking about the Superbowl of the Spirit when he asked the Galatians “Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth” as you ran toward the goal line in the “big game” of life (Galatians 5:7).
The guys who were trying to tackle the Galatians on their run for the goal were all about making the Galatians EARN their way into acceptance with God through doing good things, even religious stuff like rituals, doing good deeds, and obeying the Ten Commandments.
Paul said that was a perversion of what Jesus said really makes us right with God and leads us into the abundant life He promised we could have. Jesus cleared the path perfectly to God by dying on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for sins. Have you accepted His way to God and following His lead?
He said “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one gets to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
I frequently challenge people, after we’ve talked trivial and temporary things, to make sure they’re taking good care of that part of them that will last forever--their spirit.
Stay focused on the “Superbowl Of The Spirit.” There are no commercial breaks.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).
