This was the message on the Middle School board at the HUB left by Kent after his awesome 945 message to us yesterday. It is a great question for us this week, especially. It reminds us that we do not have to anxiously sit in front of the TV cameras and wait to see if we are good enough (like some of the NCAA basketball teams yesterday) to be in the "big dance:" we are already in the greatest tournament of our lives. We are chosen by God who says we are good enough to dance with Him! A dance that will last into eternity; a relationship with our loving Father; a "madness" that is greater than anything we can imagine! Will we take the risk? Will we say "yes?"
Like the March Madness basketball teams, we do not have to play our way in. We don't have to be good enough or earn the position. There is no committee counting our wins and our losses; our good days against our bad; there is no consideration of how hard or easy our schedule has been. There is no "RPI" rating system with God. Everyone is in the tournament and no one loses. No one who wants to play gets left out! But like the seventh grade dance, you have to be willing to take the risk if you want to dance. You have to say, "yes Lord!, I want to dance with you not just today but forever!"
It is something far bigger than the NCAA National Basketball Championship: a personal relationship with a God who is always number ONE and who will never forsake you! A God who loved you enough that He sent His only son to die for your sins: because He thinks you are worth it; you are good enough!
So, the Holy Week is about being selected. He has chosen you and made the incredible sacrifice for you. Congratulations! You have been selected! Will you say yes to the "big dance?"
4 comments:
This is SO true! We just have to accept the invitation. It amazes me every time I think about how God would never judge us and just wants us to live a life that brings Him honor. I think that we, as foldiers, should make it our goal to dance with God every single day. Thank you for continuing this blog Ellis! I don't know what we would do without you and the rest of our amazing adult leaders!
Dr T,
I appreciate the way you weave some Jesus and Hoops together. I'm sure you didn't intentionally post that pic of a Heel dunking on a Dooker...did you?
thanks for the note the other day, i needed the encouragement just at that moment.
God is Good
nate
I love this! Great analogy! Did I spell that correctly? Oh my! I want to wildly dance with God because I know(99.9%) that He is wildly in love with me and you!I am grateful that I don't have to be good enough for Him- I AM GOOD ENOUGH!! Yeah! Ellis- thanks for keeping this up and hopefully others will follow! :)
There is a huge comfort from this message, that we are good enough and in Christ we have value. All we have to do is accept it. We live in a society that determines our value by our success, be it in sports or school our main focus is to rise above the competion and that we should not get second place. I'm not saying that success is a bad thing or that being determnied to gain things is wrong but when our "success" determines our value we have lost touch with how God values us. And in our daily walk we often times think we are not good enough for Christ that is wrong because he tells us to come as we are whatever our maturity.
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