The Super Bowl and life on planet Earth have many things in common

 What I learned from watching the Super Bowl

Paper from 2017

 

 

The Super Bowl and life on planet Earth have many things in common, both have time segments in the Super Bowl we call them quarters, and in this life, we call them the seasons. Youth would be the first quarter, the second quarter is moving out of youth into becoming a young adult, and with that more responsibility, the third quarter is for most, marriage and raising a family, and the fourth quarter is for many retirements.  

We all expect to make it until the fourth quarter, but that’s not a sure bet, for it seems life-like football has many surprises.  Many a person believed last night that it was a done deal when the score was 28 – 3, but they still had a quarter to go, and surprise surprise, it did not happen the way some expected.

 

The Bible gives insight into the game of life, and it also has surprises.  “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”  Psalm 139:16) What about Matthew 6:27, “And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”  And James 4:14, “Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”  Many of us my age act as if we have years to go in the game of life, but a wise person understands no one knows but the Father when our time on planet Earth will come to an end.

 

God sent His Son to buy you and me out of the grip of sin by dying on a cross and paying our sin debt.  It is simple we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s requirement, and Jesus did what we could not do; paid a debt He did not owe.  His grace is free to all who will by faith in His finished work on the cross and ask Him for forgiveness and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead.  That is how one enters by faith into Christ and becomes clean by His blood shed for the forgiveness of sin.

 

Now many a person has come up with a better plan, it is called religion, your goodness, what you can do, but a Holy God calls that foolishness, or as stated in the Bible, it is to Him as filthy rags.  Or as mentioned in Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”

 

So, since none of us knows the time of our fourth quarter, why have it be a surprise, but be ready, with expectations.

 

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice