Do you believe?

They were down by 21 in the last half of the second quarter! The announcer had already called his opinion on how the game would end, and it was not in their favour at all short of a miracle. The team was disheartened as they slowly dragged their already weary bodies out to do the next play all the while complaining to the one beside them how much they were going to loose this game and how they would be the laughing stock  of the town for the next five generations since they could not win a single game even to the easiest of teams.

Hearing the complaints of the team, the couch got discouraged, "how could he let his team get down this much. They still had a fighting chance. It wasn't over yet!"

Wrapping up the second quarter and still down by 21! The couch pulled the team aside in the dressing room instructing each one to take a seat and pay attention. 

Walking to front of the dressing room where a chalkboard rested against the wall and where many plays had been drawn out before. he simply wrote the word "BELIEVE".

From the back of the group of players a teammate asked, "Are you going to tell us one of your stories again?"

Without turning around the couch took his piece of chalk and drew a line underneath of the word. "You better BELIEVE I am." 

Shoulders sank, as they realized they were in for along one again. The couch went on to say. "This story is about a football team, from the beginning they had huge potential and ability." 

Turning around he took his chalk and drew another line under the word on the board. "But there was one problem, they didn't BELIEVE they could win. Then a dog came along and this dog could do great things and suddenly the team started winning but you see with or without the dog they were winners, each and everyone of them. So if you believe that a dog can play football, than you better believe that we can and will win this game!"

Now some of you may know where that story comes from and in your mind you are saying, "ok, Erica has gone completely crazy now." Hey, that's fine I likely have, but don't tune me out yet, let me finish.

You see the story is true in our Christian lives as well! If you don't believe that you can make it to Glory with the help of Jesus Christ, you aren't going to!

I know that is speaking harsh language here, but if you don't believe that the Blood of Jesus is sufficient to cover all of your sins and that Jesus is really Who He said He was, is and will be, you have but in jeopardy everything in the Bible and relinquished your right to Heaven. That my friends is a dangerous place to be.

Likely one of the most famous verses in the whole Bible sums it up. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16NKJV

But often we stop there because that brings the "comfort" that we in this "western world" (if you will) want to feel. I want to continue:

"For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." John 3:17-21NKJV

So the question I ask you today is... Do you Believe?

And if you Believe how is that going to change you?

What are you going to do differently in your life, because you Believe?

When God asks you to love your neighbor, how does that change the way you respond when his dog eats your flowers? I know, simple problem but change that story as it needs to be changed to fit your need of the hour.

God asks us to simply to Believe on Him. 

Do you believe? And if you BELIEVE what are you, what am I going to do about it?

Feel free to comment your ideas on what you are going to do because YOU BELIEVE.

God Bless,