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What is your definition of perfect?
Posted: February 2, 2008
Category: Pastor Steve's Blog
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TAGS: perfect, Super Bowl
It is Super Bowl weekend. Everyone is gearing up for the big game and everything goes with it. I heard that the average spending by Americans is $58.91/person for food, beverages and other items for the game. I don’t know if that is based on viewers or taking the total spending and dividing it by the number of people in the country. It is the one day of the year that people care about the commercials. Statistics say that 92.4% of people will stay to watch the commercials. There are newspaper articles, internet sites, blogs, and magazines devoted to what will take place with these commercial spots. After the game, there will be sites that a person can play back the commercials, vote on the their favorites, and comment on what they have seen.
All of this surrounds the play of two teams who want to be Super Bowl Champion. New England is trying for a perfect season. That phrase is intriguing. The perfect season means that they will have gone 19-0 as a team. But, in the midst of that perfect season will be games with interceptions, fumbles, mental mistakes, and physical mistakes. So, is it really perfect? I think about this because it has some spiritual implications as well.
When we are trying to live life according to works…we can easily pick and choose what we want to measure. Our lives look pretty good when we are able to choose our own measurements. We choose our wins and ignore the other “mistakes.” This is dangerous because we can become self-righteous and self-serving.
There is a very good way to look at this as well. We are justified through faith by Grace. God’s activity through Jesus to make us righteous through the suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He declares us perfect. In a way it’s like a perfect season (19-0). God declares us righteous for Jesus sake, and the individual interceptions, fumbles and mistakes of our life become of no effect. (Perhaps I carry this too far) But, it does help to signify how important Grace is and that the statement of God’s grace is much bigger than what we see in one another…just a thought for Super Bowl Weekend.
