Life is Like a Basketball Game
The game of life is played on a team
Your team mates are fellow Christians
Perhaps people in your small group or life group
Or people in your family
My team is my best friend and mom
And several other people who sub in and out from time to time
The basketball can represent many things
It can be the words of scripture that you pass around to each other
To encourage each other
It may simply be words of affirmation to build each other up
Scoring points in the game is like when you save someone
Or when you all help to make the world a better place
I felt this most on my mission trip to India and Taiwan
We were a very tight knit team
With a common goal
To save the lost
And there was so much energy
A kinetic energy like lightning between/ among us all
Pushing us on in the game
Your coach is like the Holy Spirit
He is your conscious encouraging you, give you wisdom
The referee is like God
If you don't listen to your coach the Holy Spirit
God the referee will put you in check
He will call you out when you are doing something wrong
And correct you through various means
The other team
Well, the other team is non-Christians
Who try to oppose your efforts
People who ridicule you for trying to live for God
People who don't want you to save people
And they certainly don't want you to save them
People who try to put out your light
People who are spiteful and mean and cut throat
But God the referee keeps them in check too
He won't let them get too out of hand in trying to attack you
As Scripture says, "No temptation has overtaken you
except what is common to mankind.
And God is faithful;
he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when you are tempted,
he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it."
This can apply to any kind of temptation to sin.
This is where people get the phrase,
"God doesn't give us more then we can handle."
The other team can also be demons at times
This is an invisible team opposing us every day
They wisper discouraging words in our ears
Try to get us to stop playing
To sit on the bench for awhile
To give up.
Their coach is Satan of course
He tells them what to do
They try to strike fear into us so our shot will be off
They try to yell at us and mock us to throw off our game
They even try to pit us against each other sometimes
Those little jerks.
They know a house divided cannot stand
So they try to breed resentment and bitterness and jealousy between us
They try to dis-unify us
But we have to fight them off, pray them off, rebuke them off
The points they win are those who "sell their souls to Satan"
This phenomenon is real, it actually happens, believe it or not.
The crowd in the game is everyone else in the world,
Watching you
Some of them are cheering for you
And some are cheering for the other team
You can pretty much always tell
Who is cheering for you
People who encourage you
People who tell you how special you are
That you are capable to doing great things for God
That God can use you in this crazy game of life
People who believe in you
Believe that you can win the game
Believe that God can win the game through you.
And that is how life is like a basketball game. :) Hope you liked it! God bless!
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