“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” Matthew 7:12
I heard this week that Kyle Shanahan, the Offensive Coordinator of the Falcons lost his playbook during a media blitz. The playbook is defined by Webster as “a stock of unusual tactics or methods; a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of football plays.” This doesn’t sound important to me, but I bet it is to Kyle.
One would think that on the week of the biggest game of the year, Offensive Coordinators would guard something like this a little more closely. The media says it was a “classic mix up” as someone mistook Shanahan’s bag for theirs and left with it. I guess we will see if in that “mix up” the other team was able to get the information they needed. Hopefully, they aren’t guilty!
It made me think of life and playbooks. What are the rules? What’s fair? How far will people go in bending the rules? God has given us the ultimate playbook and yet we try to bend His rules in every way imaginable. We sometimes lie, we cheat, we even steal, but we qualify these actions in our own mind. Are we just as guilty as someone who might take a playbook before a big game? Aubrey Bruce said, “People spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace, yet they say to God ‘leave us alone we have no desire to know Your ways.'”
I hear a lot of talk in football about making halftime adjustments. An adjustment is “a small change that improves something or makes it work better.” I wonder if this will be necessary for the Falcons on Sunday? In life, as in football, there are so many times when adjustments need to be made to follow God’s path for our lives. Sometimes adjustments work, sometimes they don’t. When we have to make an adjustment in the way we are living, it only seems logical to look to God for the right play from His Playbook. Then, we can avoid the “classic mix up.”
Rise UP!!