“Your Belief Is Everything”

As those words came out of my mouth to my football team I had an immediate check in the spirit…..a moment where I felt I heard God saying:  THAT is your answer.

 

I had always pondered “why is our belief so important?” …… and in some senses I still understand why I did not understand …….

 

But the game of football has taught me so much about life …. And God has used it to teach me so many things.

Get up.

Be tough.

Be unselfish.

Celebrate the successes of your teammates.

And so on…..

 

But the one that I want to address today has to do with belief…..In football:

  • If I am the 2 deep safety and I do not believe that the corner will funnel and do his job then I will open too wide and offer the inside cut to the receiver.
  • If I am the end and I do not believe the the linebacker will fill, I can lose my contain and let the back outside.
  • If I am the safety and I do not believe that my teammates will stop the run….then I might take unnecessary chances that offer up much worse outcomes then the ones I am trying to prevent.
  • If I am the QB and I get drilled in the blind side because the tackle does not block….I might lose my belief that he will block and make terrible decisions with the ball because I don’t believe that the line will protect me.

And so on……

 

I think this idea is summed up in this verse:

James 1 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

 

There are two things I want to touch on here today.

 

  • When others let us down, we must decide whether we have the belief…the faith….to be back in the game.  Forgiveness is a part of this. Faith is a part of this. Our will is a part of this. It is simply a matter of our will controlling our mind…..it is our will telling our mind to restore….to believe….to dream again.  It is okay to dream again. It is okay to ask the Lord to restore your hope. It is okay for you to will yourself back to faith.  Because FAITH and BELIEF will give you a new hope.
  • God will never let us down.  Our fallen world will always oppose us.  People’s bad choices (including our own) will always be able to affect us.  And the enemy will always look to steal, kill, and destroy us. In the temporary, death will eventually get to us……but in the eternal—God wins…… and  He’s got ALL WHO WOULD CALL ON HIM AND RECEIVE HIS FREE GIFT.

 

 

As I read this verse I had a visual of a sea turtle fighting to get out to sea…..getting tossed and blown around by the wind and the waves and the surf.  His little body having to fight for all that he has just to GET into the water…….. And, no matter what he does…..the waves will sometimes determine his destiny.

 

Let’s not live in that realm as believers.

 

Let’s WILL ourselves to have faith and belief.  Our Will To Believe can literally change the destiny of our day, or week, our outcomes…….and without our DECISION, or CHOICE, to believe—-we are like a turtle getting tossed around like a rag doll.

Let’s Believe and Not Doubt

Because our God…..He did just that….and He did it right up to His dying breath on that cross.

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J