Football season is upon us. The cute pictures of little children in huge uniforms are beginning on Facebook. The sports-casters are pontificating about which team (in either college or pro) will be good this year. I myself cheer for the Wolverines and hope they do well! What intrigues me about football is something that seems similar in all sports - the dedication that good players put into the game. There are always people who show up to practice but seem content where they are and have no desire to get better. These players may even be skilled enough to get playing time, but these are not the players that the coaches commend or the fans love. The players that seem to be the most revered are the ones that regardless of skill show up AND work their tails off to get better. Every practice, every play, they have one goal in mind - to progress and be better than the day before. These players are fun to watch.
It makes me wonder about the similarities between football players and Christians. Sometimes Christians tend to do the same thing. There are a few Christians who eagerly seek after Christ and His likeness with a ferocious tenacity and a strong desire to be more like Him. But many Christians seem to show up for "practice" on Sunday morning but do no conditioning, no strength training, no daily workouts. They may have enough talent naturally to seem normal and even fool many other Christians, but there is no drive, no desire to grow.
The question then is which type of Christian are you?
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