Good Saturday morning! Some folks are critical of Josh McDaniels and the Broncos for selecting Tim Tebow in the first round of the NFL draft. For those of you going "who? ...draft?" just hang with us for a bit here. I felt good about their choice and was pleasantly surprised when I saw it on the telly. Drafting a quarterback who believes in Christ is an unusual thing in the NFL, though I realize that may not be the reason the Broncos made their selection. I pray for Mr. Tebow's success in the NFL.
In watching the NFL draft, I feel glad for the success of these young men. The college football players are evaluated on their football skills, a team selects them sooner or later in the selection process, and the player's agent sits down with the team to negotiate a big pile o' loot. The whole process is about as mercenary, or capitalist, as it gets in this world. The danger in that is in placing a value on yourself from what others will pay you. We see it all over the world; people learning their value from the amount they see on their paycheck.
We may look at the speck in the eye of the draft in a manner of speaking, and then look around the beam in our own eye. We may not even realize that it's happening to us, but each year we make a little more and then a bit more as the annual raises are given out... and suddenly we have a tendency to think we are worth more by the size of our pay or bank account. "I'm better than them because I have so much, or they are better than me because they have that fancy thing there!" We look to the wrong things to find our worth.
Jesus died for each of us long before we earned a single coin or bought a single luxury. All of us living now had an earning potential of exactly zero when Jesus went to the cross. Yet we often fall into the trap of judging our worth by worldly standards. We look at the wealthy and consider them of more worth to God somehow. After all, they can give more right? Jesus had a different standard that he told in that story we know so well about the widow and her two mites. Why do we find that story so easy to forget when we start looking at our worth? Jesus didn't have a rich fellow show up in Galilee with a boat load of fish and a bakery, anyone could have fed the multitude with that; he had a boy show up with his sack lunch. Your life may seem of little worth in this world; give it all to Jesus and watch what he does with your offering!
Have a great weekend in Christ Jesus,
Bucky
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