Got back to the house tonight and turned on a game that was in its final few frenetic minutes… the game had the teams exchanging leads… it was fitting as I had just typed myself a note yesterday for an idea for this week’s Game Plan for Life… the note simply reads: Play like the team behind.
I was thinking about how games tend to look in their waning moments… where the team that is behind plays with a newfound urgency… (and at times the team ahead can flatten out to kill time and play with complacency.)
When playing with a sense of urgency there has to be an intensity on both offense and defense… yet there must also be good decisions being made. (I love sharing the old John Wooden quote to “be quick but don’t hurry.” Hurried is a frenetic state of mind…)
Well I could spend a lot of time discussing this but the point is to get to the mental mandate I found in The Playbook about urgency.
1 Peter 4:7 begins with a statement of certainty and of urgency: But the end of things is at hand;
The next word is “therefore”; this word is a word that simply means “these things being so…” and then gives the logical response.
The verse goes on to tell us what our mental state should be in these urgent end times: Be serious and watchful in your prayers.
In times of urgency we are not called to be frenetic but instead “serious and watchful”… or the idea of being of sound mind and sober or calm in spirit as we go to prayer!
Right now the call is to not panic but to pray!
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