FINALLY!!

Hooray for the Colts! After years of just missing and heartbreak, they put it all together. It wasn't pretty, but it's a Super Bowl victory.

Time to go deep. I want to tie together two things that i love - football and God.

The Colts season is really a great picture of a Christian life. They started strong, winning their first nine games. But the problem was they played just better than the compitition in some of those games. They beat weaker teams by only a few points. Then the losses came and after starting strong they finished 12-4. Good, but no where near what they could've done.

They got back to basics, made the main thing the main thing again and rocked through the playoffs. Then the capper was winning the big game.

It's so easy in Christiandom, especially here in the States, to just "play to the competition." We are just good enough or go to church enough to stay one step ahead of problems or the devil himself. We do enough to keep us saved, but there's no tapping into the true power of the cross.

We (i) need to get back to the main thing - seeking Jesus and living as close to Him as possible and craving, depending, feeding on the power of God alive in us. We don't all face being down 18 points in a championship game against our arch-rivals, but we face health, financial, relational, work, family, emotional obstacles sometimes daily. We really have to keep our cool - know that "greater is He that is in me" and that "nothing is impossible for God" and just keep at our game plan.

I know i'm probably over-spiritualizing the Colts season, but i think the lesson is solid. If you have the Spirit of God dwelling in you, you can't just get by. We are "more than conquerers through Christ Jesus" who lives in us. We win!

Think about that as you watch the fantastic parade as the Colts get back to Indy.