I am enjoying the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament this year. Two of my favorite teams are still alive: The Florida Gators and Kentucky Wildcats are both in the final eight. It’s amazing to me how the same programs have success each year. I understand that success breeds success; but it must be admitted that certain men have the uncanny ability to get self-centered, egotistical, eighteen year-old superstars, to decide they can be better and that success lays in being part of a team.
It’s really what Jesus does for us in the process of Discipleship. Jesus meets us where we are, challenges us to be better than we are, makes us want to be better than we are, enables us to be better than we are, and joins us together as part of His spiritual body to spread His gospel here on earth. As part of the team, our real worth emerges.
It’s amazing to watch these guys take skinny freshmen and build them into basketball scoring machines. These guys are drilled in teamwork. Each having a role in producing the eventual winning machine.
It’s what Jesus calls us into. He wants us to give up our individual goals and meld into His body for the greater good of His church on earth. It’s a role that can’t be played sitting at home, or sitting in the pew. It requires getting up and moving. It means we need to go where the lost live. It means being willing to touch, spend time and deposit truth into dark and lost places.
It’s tip off time and this “Madness” isn’t limited to March.
Suit up and get in the game.
Nick
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