SuperBowl

We’re just a few days away from the Super Bowl. Notwithstanding the weather, thousands of people will do whatever it takes to get to Cowboy Stadium and watch the Packers beat the Steelers. The same people, and others, more or less, will attend one or more parties scattered around the Metroplex embracing any number of “themes.”

When it is all said and done, some will have drunk themselves into jail, most will know the outcome of the game, and a few will have had the opportunity to see, or touch, or be in the same room with, or get an autograph, of someone they admire or idolize. Everyone will have a bit of memorabilia, even if it is just a picture taken with their own camera.

But nothing will have changed in life, not really anyway. Most of those folks will have skipped (as most probably always do – check the stats) being in a real Church of Jesus Christ on Superbowl day. Hence they will miss the only thing that really does change lives, that really matters, that is worth all the effort one needs to expend to attend. Why? Because God will be there – that is why!

Don’t hear me wrong – God will be in Cowboy Stadium for the game – in the heart and mind of every true Believer. But the focus will be elsewhere – there will be no great hymns of The Faith, no Prayer time, no exposition of God’s Holy Word.

I’m not knocking the game, or the venue, or the time and day — only that in the long run of real life, there is at least “one thing” that is more important. If I had to choose (and I don’t – are you kidding?), I’d choose Church over the Super Bowl. And,. . .and, I’d be “oh so close” to the One who died for me.