We can learn so many lessons about God and life from sports.  The most important lesson is that no matter how dark the night, no matter how hard the fight, we can always win.  We can always pull an upset. We can always comeback. God can turn any situation around.  Sports comebacks are numerous.  Michael Cahill writes, “there are few things in sports that capture the attention, and the memory, of sports fans more than a comeback. It’s the story that fans share, the experience that can make an ordinary game an extraordinary moment. There is nothing more exhilarating than seeing the odds stacked against a team only to watch it pull off the impossible.”

The game is life, and life is “the game”.  Our opponents are Satan, our own flesh, and this evil world. While the game of life is nothing to play with, the analogy is worth studying.  We play or live to win. And how do we win?  The Bible tells us that “every child of God can obey him, defeating sin and evil pleasure by trusting Christ to help him. But who could possibly fight and win this battle except by believing that Jesus is truly the Son of God?”   (New Century Version)  In other words, “everyone who is a child of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world — our faith.  So the one who wins against the world is the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.” (The Living Bible). Continue reading →