Don’t Pass!
As many of you did, I sat on the edge of my seat and then nearly came out of it when Seattle Seahawks #15, Jermaine Kearse, made a nearly miraculous catch. Rolling and on his back with the ball bouncing off his left knee, then his right then off his right hand and through the air before he finally secured it, got up and took it out of bounds on the 1 yard line. Thus setting up Seattle to take back the lead with less than one minute left in the Superb Owl game. This was amazing as it accomplished something few of us in the room thought would happen. It set up the possibility of, literally, a last minute win.
It was perfect. It would have been the catch of the season and the play which saved the Seahawks. It would have made Kearse the hero of the game.
Then we all watched with jaws hanging open as the unthinkable happened; with enough time on the clock for two plays to try to run the ball in for a 1 yard touchdown, Seattle made the decision that will have people scratching their heads for the next year. They decided to pass. The end result was, well, less than wonderful for anyone outside of Boston.
But in the end this was just another game and in 10 years almost no one will remember it. But it got me thinking. There was another time when something similar happened. All of mankind was all but lost with no hope in sight to save the game for us, when something more than near-miraculous happened. Jesus died on the cross for us and then, beyond all hope, he rose from the dead, in doing so he set us up for salvation in a much better position than having a first down on the one yard line. He set us up in a position where all we had to do to be saved from loss was to accept Him and what He had done for us.
Unfortunately many of us take that opportunity, when all we have to do is accept what He did for us and we do the unthinkable. We pass. We pass on the greatest opportunity that was ever given to any person anywhere- Salvation for eternity.
Christ has done this miracle for you and he is waiting for you to do something easier than pushing one yard with Beast Mode pushing the way through. He is waiting for you to simply accept what He did for you. If you make the unthinkable decision of passing, it won’t be something that just has people shaking their heads for the next year, it will be something that affects you for all of eternity.
Jesus just handed you the ball. Run with it.