Does God Truly Care If Your Team Wins or Loses?

Many people just want to side with the winning team, many even skip Church on Sundays, because the game is on, and will feel more resolve in the fleeting of sports victory rather than the eternity of spiritual victory.

Some Florida Gator fans have even seen the spiritual meaning in the Tim Tebow led victory over the LSU Tigers at night, after Tebow had been injured with a concussion.

The recent World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees has led me to thinking.  That being about the misery of New York Mets fans, including Jon Stewart of The Daily Show.

I've been there... I'm a Raider fan.  Plus, my last little league team was the Mets, from which I have photos that were taken by a sports photographer.

Team sucks, don't know why.  Start wondering if God is against you, because your team can't win, but that of course, is just nonsense.  It is nonsense to believe that God cares about the outcome of a game of chance, or to define your faith in God through the outcome of games of chance.

Obviously, the Mets have been technically more successful than the Raiders have been in recent years, but in terms of expectations, I believe that I'm on the same level as Mets fans.  Largely because, Mets fans became Mets fans, because they were not fair-weather fans and in spite of the history of the New York Yankees.  Just as Raider fans became Raider fans in spite of the history of the San Francisco 49ers.

And that's why Yankee and Niner fans laugh with sadistic glee ... because they believe that either they've been blessed by the wheel of fortune, or blessed by the ability to have no remorse about disloyalty.

But I guarantee like Joe Namath that only one "team" will win in the, "postseason."

People stick with their team, because they want to believe that if and when that team wins, it will make them feel spiritually complete.

I don't claim to be perfectly pure.  I've sinned, I know that and I don't claim otherwise.  That is one problem I have had with institutional religion -- many sects take the offense in trying to sell their faith to lure followers, and in order for people to have confidence in their *product* they must appear to practice what they preach and to cherry pick Bible verses.  I can only act in defense of God and have the faith that I will be empowered with the right words.

I believe that a person cannot say, "Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior," (say it aloud and see what happens) without having accepted the Spirit.  That is why I have wondered about Jon Stewart ever since he said on-air that, "Jesus Christ is My Lord and Savior," in the context of a joke.  I do not know with certainty that a person can say that, even in the context of a joke, because even some Christians will not say it when pressed.

Many will even use hard line legalism, or people such as snake-handlers will test God's will to save them from poisonous snakes, or people will put their faith in the outcome of sporting events.

All bunk.

But that leads followers to look hypocritical by association, and thus impugns God.  That is one reason why I seek to be a thumb in the eye to any group or inclination to be affirmed by other sinners.  That is what I know from Christianity.  Everyone is a sinner to some degree, thus the only One a person should want affirmation from is God. 

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