Get Your Game Face On!

As football season is drawing to a close, and we near the bowl games that has every fan on pins and needles, there is still games to be played people! If you have even an ounce of pride I do in my team ( hard to guess what team I love huh ? ) then you know the drill especially if you love football, especially if you live in the state of Alabama! Every saturday morning if your like me, then you can hardly wait til its game time!

You know when your team comes through that tunnell that it is time to play the game! No distractions, totally focused on the task at hand! The emotion, the blood pumping in your veins, the thoughts of what is about to happen just pounding in your head! Lets take this same scenario and bring it into everyday life! Everyday we face something dont we? Everyday has task for us doesnt it? Have you found out that if you arent focused on finishing the task at hand, then you can get distracted and even let the day defeat you! Getting your gameface on has alot to do with how our day is going to play out! It sets the tone actually! How you start your day has everything to do with how it finishes!

Morning starts out much like a pre-game, and what you do in your pre game is crucial for how you view your performance! I have to say that this is a great representation of what goes on everyday spiritually with us all! Take this morning for instance, after you woke up, and stretched and hit the snooze! Then got your cup of coffee and sat down at you puter or whatever you did, did you think about today? Getting into the shower, did you start then? Or did it turn sour from the time you opened your eyes? Was the coffee cold? Were the kids hard to get off to school? Did you get an early phone call from work or a wrong number?

All of those things can fill our minds and if we let them keep us distracted from reaching our goals throughout the day! Thats why keeping our game faces on is so important! That no matter what happens today I have a goal in mind and I am going to reach it! As christians we have tools we can use to keep our minds focused! We have the Word of God and we have our imagination on how to use that word! God isnt just those pages and He isnt just with those people then God is the air we breathe and its how aware we are of Him in the here and now!

To me sometimes the Word of God acts like a Coach! This is the day that I have made! I have chosen you today to be my light! Show my love to all you touch today! Find me in the small things, here my voice when the wind blows around you! Resist the urge to give in, fight it, you can do it! I believe in you! Call a time out! Come here! Lets talk! Tell me about it! Keep me posted! If you cant stop thinking about that then think about me! My word in your heart will keep you pure! Think about my words! I have faith in you! I love you!

If we could keep in mind that God has a purpose for why we are who we are, in the exact place we are in, I think it would make it bring it home more to keep our game faces on!