Play-call

For those of you not familiar with sports terms, let me break this down. A Play-call is the term for a plan within a sports game given from the coach to the players on a team.

You might know where I’m going with this now. This term could easily relate back to God. The Christian Play-call is the term for an action that God gives a Christian to carry out to glorify his name. Now the way I see it there’s 2 choices on the playing field.

You can agree with the play-call and get back in the game or you can argue with the coach on the sidelines.

Therefore, we can agree with God’s plan for our life or we can wrestle with him about it and not achieve all God has for us in this life. God is our Coach. Life is the game. The devil is the opponent. The Sidelines are where the devil wants you to be.

See, if your sitting on the bench not in the game, the coach can’t use you till your ready to be used. When your on the bench, the devil can say “I don’t have to worry about that one they aren’t actively in the game”. The ones in the game are who he has to worry about. Since, they are achieving all that God has for them. By not being on the field, you delay that by being stuck on the sidelines.

All you have to do is cross that line. When God gives you your play-call don’t worry about the what-ifs. Agree with the call, cross the sidelines, and get back in the game of life.

When on a team, players don’t carry the same plan that coaches do. Coaches have experience and they know what has to be added to the game to achieve success on the field.

God can see way beyond us. He can see what tactic the devil is going to use, and he knows that if his players carry out a certain strategy that more people will come to glorify his name.

Here’s an example, in the Garden of Eden, the Devil encouraged humanity to sin so that we would be separated from God and we did. That was the Devil’s tactic. Therefore, God sent himself down as Jesus (the human-form of God) to sacrifice himself so that all of humanity’s sins were paid for on the cross. He then rose on the 3rd day and defeated death once and for all. All of humanity had to believe it in their heart he did that and confess he did that with their mouth, so that they could have eternity with God in heaven. That was God’s strategy.

That was God’s ultimate strategy. He could see beyond anything humans ever will see. So here’s my question.

Let’s just put this in perspective.

God’s ultimate strategy was to defeat the devil, by becoming human to sacrifice himself and rise from the dead, for us to have eternal life in Heaven, don’t you think any other play-call after that is manageable?

We need to trust our coach. He knows what he’s doing, when he gives us a plan he has already thought it out way ahead of time.

Lastly, trust the whistle. God will let you know when you stray off the path. When you hear him telling you to stop or to re-route, listen to the whistle.

Sometimes all he wants is for you to take a timeout and spend some time with him in his word to get a better understanding. We go one direction thinking it’s God but sometimes God just wants us to stay put. Other times he wants us to do a 180 in the right direction. Coaching-wise when you hear the whistle, turn towards the coach. If you can’t hear coaches’ whistle, chances are you need to get closer to him.

The sport analogies in this post are there to put it in perspective the way God operates.

He makes the play-calls based off future knowledge and he blows the whistle to get us on the right track. When we aren’t ready to be on the field or carry out his plan, we miss out on being used by him in the game of life.