This week’s Monday Night Football game
ended in a touchdown pass… or an interception.
It depends on who you ask. Two players from opposing teams ended the
game playing tug-of-war over the football.
The decision regarding who had possession of the football determined who
won the game. They could not both posses
the ball. It had to be awarded to one or
the other.
There
is a battle of possession that has much greater consequences than who wins a
big football game. That battle is raging
over who will have possession of your loyalties, affections, and
priorities. Will you belong to God or to
Satan/the world? Jesus describes this in
Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love
the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon.”
Both
God and the world are vying for you, and you cannot award yourself to
both. James 4:4 cautions us saying, “Do
you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever
therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” So make the big call. Do you belong to God or the world? Everything depends on you making the right
call.
