A Big Deal

You may not have heard, but there is a little football game being played this coming Sunday.  They call it the Super Bowl, and this will be the 55th rendition of the game.

            I’m writing in advance, so I am not sure who is playing.  My prediction would be Green Bay and Kansas City, but so would almost everyone else’s since they are the two number one seeds.

            But I’m not writing about football.  It’s funny. The game winner will be declared “The World Champion of Football” for 2021. 

            And yet, the football game is only one aspect of the day.  The pregame show will start early in the morning.  Even in the midst of a pandemic, there will be “Super Bowl Parties” in too many places. Many parties will have two separate rooms with one TV showing the game, and another TV showing almost anything else.  And there will be lots of food!

            Then there is the halftime show.  It’s often a bigger deal than the game.  Unfortunately, the halftime show has featured wardrobe malfunctions and “dancing routines” in recent years that ought to embarrass us. Yes, I’m old, but I’m also right.

            I was seven-years old when the first Super Bowl was played in January of 1967. Ironically, Green Bay beat Kansas City that day.  And hardly anyone was there. Very few watched it on television. It wasn’t a big deal.

            Today it is almost a national holiday.  And as I said earlier, the football game is almost an afterthought. 

            Sometimes that’s how we live, too. The most important things, those which should be our greatest priorities, are afterthoughts. I’m thinking of how we treat the Lord. He is often forgotten and neglected.  Some even deny His very existence.

            How we need to make the Lord the center of our lives and our homes! When we put Him first, all other aspects of living make better sense.  He is with us to help us.  But when we push Him into the background, life is much more difficult to understand.  It just doesn’t make sense.

            I want to encourage you to put God first in your life.  When you do that you will find peace and hope that will last.  He will make life make sense.  It will be the best thing you ever do.