Monday, February 09, 2009

Soccer and God


Tomorrow starts the first day of soccer practice for the 08-09 season at OCSI.
I'm not sure why but God has me coaching the boys team this year.
Expectations are high (as usual) but for some reason the more I think about God and what His true will is it's hard to see soccer as a top priority.
I know you can learn valuable life lessons , I know you can build team unity, I know you can do all sorts of things but is it Gods will that I coach soccer, does the God of all creation really care about a soccer team ministry. I'm not saying He doesn't want me to, because their is a need and there are kids on the team that need a good role model and need Christ, but would He have chosen it that way if He could have decided. I think God is simple in what he wants, he wants us to love Him and one another. I just keep getting hung up with all the bad going on in this world and what Soccer has to do with it. I mean will this help people who are homeless or someone who has never heard of the good news? Are we really supposed to rationalize it as this is what God has me doing or should we be fighting the stuff to help the real issues that plague this earth. I'm not sure but I will be praying that God will reveal in this season or in the years to come on how to effectively do God's will and not just man's stuff. I just think that sometimes it's the easy way out to say this is what we do and God will bless it instead of saying lets do what God wants so we can glorify him. Think about the things we do as humans and how we rationalize it to fit God's will, sometimes I have to laugh.
Fantasy leagues, team sports, pot lucks (buffets), and the best would have to be halo tournaments. I'm victim to all of these, I'm not perfect.

I go back and forth on this issue so please don't peg me as "most things we do are meaningless as it relates to God's true will and we are way to lost to see it", but maybe we are.
I just feel that sometimes we are so wrapped up in our way of living that it's so against the grain to truly do God's will that we just settle.
What's your opinion, because mine certainly is not the only one.
Bare with me. I'm still growing.

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