The Seahawks won on Monday. I don't have TV, so I didn't watch the game. Apparently there was a questionable, ambiguous call at the end. Somewhere between an interception and a touchdown. Then, the game ended.
Then, the replacement referees were the brunt of many jokes.
Then, the professional referee strike ended, because the NFL offered to meet the professional referee demands.
Seriously, America?
THIS is the breaking news story on CNN?
There are many reasons I am grateful to live in America: for example, I have the freedom to write this blog entry. I am grateful for the opportunities to worship God freely, to sleep without fear of government overthrow, to be able to run outside whenever I feel like it.
I am grateful for our freedoms. I realize the sacrifices many brave people have made to defend my freedom. But, to what extent does freedom reach? Do we NEED the freedom of well-mediated professional sport events?
So many other things happened today. But, the TV running in the coffee shop (where I'm exercising my first-world, American right to free wi-fi) is obsessed about Obama's slam on Romney's character. Isn't that what politicians do with a month left before an election?
Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of misfortune comes to all alike. Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. -Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
The rich are wise in their own eyes, but the poor who are intelligent see through them. -Proverbs 28:11
Maybe this NFL referee strike shouldn't bother me so much. But, it does.
To me, this is the clearest example of a "first-world problem" I can imagine. Demanding the expulsion of corruption... for a sport. Pouring millions of dollars of investment into entertainment.
I am proud to be an American, but not because the strike is over.
I am first and foremost a citizen of Heaven. I highly doubt that American football will be refereed in Heaven. Consequently, I will continue to invest my resources elsewhere than NFL game tickets.
For instance, I will pay $2 for a cup of drip coffee. As an American. To ensure my right to "free" wi-fi. Hope my sarcasm is clear enough.
Hope our nation gets over itself, just like the referees finally did.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Ephesians 5
Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving. For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light – for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth – and find out what pleases the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. But all things being exposed by the light are made evident. For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:
“Awake, O sleeper!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you!”
Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise, taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil. For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is. And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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