It's not called the Vince Lombardi Trophy for nothing. I can read about Vince Lombardi and never get bored. I love champions. I love the training and desire, determination, discipline and distinction that champions possess. Paul the Apostle possessed these traits. We can develop these traits by reading God's Word and being in His presence until we become one with Him.
Vince Lombardi, former coach of the Green Bay Packers, and the winning coach of Super Bowl I, stated in a speech called "What it takes to be number 1": "Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Every time a football player goes to play his trade he’s got to play from the ground up-from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play."
As Christians, we get it. We read all about it in Ephesians 6. We gird ourselves up from our feet to our head. We realize their is another battle that takes place on the field of life, day in and day out until we cross the end zone. and make it safely home.
Vince Lombardi, former coach of the Green Bay Packers, and the winning coach of Super Bowl I, stated in a speech called "What it takes to be number 1": "Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Every time a football player goes to play his trade he’s got to play from the ground up-from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play."
As Christians, we get it. We read all about it in Ephesians 6. We gird ourselves up from our feet to our head. We realize their is another battle that takes place on the field of life, day in and day out until we cross the end zone. and make it safely home.
Hebrews 12:1
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
To sacrifice is to give up something for a specific purpose.
To sacrifice you pay a price. No one else, you.
Lombardi said, "Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most importantly, you must pay the price to stay there." "Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
A Super Bowl Christian will sacrifice.
There are things that they will give up, and things that they will take up.
They will give up pet sins, They will take up burdensome crosses.
They will give up freedoms, They will take up submission
In doing so their time, their thinking, and their actions will be radically changed.
The beauty of sacrifice and the burden of sacrifice, is that it’s not just a one time event. The Super Bowl Christian, like the Super Bowl athlete, continually trains and sacrifices. There is no off season, and no retirement. Paul did not rest on the bench, not even when he was old. He continued to press on. He knew that the goal line was still a few yards ahead. He wouldn’t reach the end zone when he closed his eyes in death.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
To sacrifice is to give up something for a specific purpose.
To sacrifice you pay a price. No one else, you.
Lombardi said, "Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most importantly, you must pay the price to stay there." "Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
A Super Bowl Christian will sacrifice.
There are things that they will give up, and things that they will take up.
They will give up pet sins, They will take up burdensome crosses.
They will give up freedoms, They will take up submission
In doing so their time, their thinking, and their actions will be radically changed.
The beauty of sacrifice and the burden of sacrifice, is that it’s not just a one time event. The Super Bowl Christian, like the Super Bowl athlete, continually trains and sacrifices. There is no off season, and no retirement. Paul did not rest on the bench, not even when he was old. He continued to press on. He knew that the goal line was still a few yards ahead. He wouldn’t reach the end zone when he closed his eyes in death.
ACTION STEP: Take a look at your life. Do you have what it takes to be a Super Bowl Champion Christian? Do you desire what God desires for you? Do you have determination to fuel your desire and the discipline to make it happen while denying your self daily and taking up your cross? Pray today for God to give you the grace to become all you are to become.
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