It finished as fast as it started, but the 2008 season is over, the Panthers are at home, and I can finally not rush home from church on Sunday afternoon to get the game on. It was a good year, but ultimately disappointing as my team went 12-4, won the NFC South, but lost in the Divisional round of the playoffs.
Every year I tell myself that I’m done with this game. The ups, downs, and emotional swings are embarassing to admit to, but I do it to myself again and again every year. The end of the season is sad, but at the same time a relief that I can go the next several months in “chill” mode and put some of my time back into the important things in life — like reading.
To that end, I ordered In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel Centered Life, by Sinclair Ferguson to dive into in an attempt to rebuild my brain from the mush it has become over the past 5 months watching football all Sunday afternoon and Monday night. I believe it will be a good read and refocus my heart on the truth of salvation in Christ — not in any other, including myself. John Calvin said:
“We see salvation whole, its every single part is found in Christ. And we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else.”
It is a truth I need to re-learn and re-apply to my life — call it flushing my system of man-made ideas and works-based salvation.
I am eager to begin this time of renewal and re-focused attentions.
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Feb 09
Becoming Aware of God’s Workings In Daily Life
There are rare times in which I am acutely aware of God at work in my daily life. I understand that He is always at work, but there are those times when I can look at certain events or situations and clearly see the hand of God conforming me to the image of His holy Son.
Open the eyes of my heart that I may become even more aware of those times Lord.