Today’s Thought “Sports Fanatics” G. Ward

Psalm 146

³ Do not trust in noblemen, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His spirit departs; he returns to the earth;
On that very day his plans perish.

 

While I’ve witnessed card games that turned into vitriolic arguments, along with little boys’ feuding on which may be the fastest car, our disagreements are with an immature similitude; particularly when our support of those so impersonal to us invade good thinking and whereas a particular autumn of life may find any depleted of energies (due to sickness, or financial woes, etc.), my favorite sports team losing or winning won’t mean much.

I’m privileged to come from a generation where some sought to pervade on their children a notion of biblical proportion - that insisted we not trust in man. I believe it stemmed from a two-fold admonishing: 1. Every man’s philosophical stance is/will be displaced by another appearing more plausible to adopt and to be insatiably driven (i.e., awaiting eloquence’s dictates of what success looks like…) lacks spiritual accountability to the ONE who made us and won’t change (Heb.13:8). 2. Re-inventing the wheel can most assuredly indicate points of inaccuracy found in any(thing). Moreover, because error is the necklace named among every human and therefore calls for testing against the Truth of Final Authority’s Word (1 John 4:1), further interrogation of that plan is a must (2 Ti.3:16-17).