February 4, 2014 (Tuesday)
I don’t think I know enough about football in general, the Super Bowl in particular, and specifically the Seattle coach and team, but from what I’ve seen and read, there seems to be a unique bond between the coach and team, and a special attitude toward the game among the team members. Listening to the interviews after the game last Sunday, I felt like every team member fully expected to win the game, and felt like they had done their best as they had played the game. The coach spoke of believing in and encouraging the players. There was something different about those after-game interviews. If the Seahawks maintain that spirit, they will probably be successful next year, too. There’s probably a lot more to be said about this entire subject, and I may be nowhere near correct in my poor assessment of the situation, but this is how it seems to me.
I do know that Jesus taught us that it’s what in the heart that counts. What you think eventually results in what you do.
We have been studying Ecclesiastes in our Sunday School class at Bethel Baptist Church. The author of the book is Solomon, who was very wise, but the attitudes toward life expressed in the book are by and large those of an unredeemed person. Or so it seems to me. Christ makes the difference in a person’s life. He creates a new attitude in our hearts. It causes people to say things like, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” It enables us to proclaim, “There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” It enables us to rejoice and say, “Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace” (a good old song).