Trust The Play

Faith is a big component in a football team’s game plan. If each player can depend on the others to carry out their assignments, the defense works effectively. If they don’t have faith in their teammates, they abandon the plan and open up holes for the offense to exploit.

Running an offense requires faith too. A quarterback has to trust that the receiver will run his route correctly, and the receiver has to trust that the ball will arrive in the right place at the right time.

That’s how life works too. We have to trust that the assignment God has given us is the right one. We need to know that the people and circumstances around us are running a pattern that will work out for good. We need to forsake our natural instincts and play our position, no matter how things look, and trust that the plan will work. As we carry out our assignments faithfully, the results will come. That’s what it means to live by faith, not by sight.

His Promises

Those who know your name trust in you,

for you, O LORD, do not abandon those who search for you.

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

How joyful are those who fear the LORD

and delight in obeying his commands.

Their children will be successful everywhere;

an entire generation of godly people will be blessed.

They themselves will be wealthy,

and their good deeds will last forever.