Spiritual Playmakers

You will often hear a sports announcer say when a player makes a big play in a game that “they called on his number and he came through.” If a player is on the sidelines in a football game and the coach yells at him to get in most of the time he will jump up and run into the game. That is unless the kid is just playing to “wear the uniform,” as we sometimes say, in which he is a little worried about having to play. He just wants to sit on the sidelines and look good and let the other players make things happen. We can’t be like this in our Christian lives. We can’t become a Christian just to “wear the uniform”, we have to be playmakers. It is the players that are out on the field making plays to help the team win that get remembered. Do you want to be remembered? When it comes down to the judgment day do you want God to say “…Well done they good and faithful servant…” (Matthew 25:21) or do you want to hear God say “…I never knew you: depart from me…” (Matthew 7:23). I think all would like to hear the first one. So as you and I walk through our daily lives we should think about something; are we simply wearing the Christian uniform, or are we being playmakers and soul winners for God? And do you want to be remembered? Not necessarily by man, but by God himself on that Day of Judgment. Matthew 16:27 “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

-Ben Stevenson