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You might know this about me. I'm kinda a sports guy. I love following the teams that I cheer for, and I love following the engaging storylines around all of sports. But there's one thing I love more than anything about sports. I love seeing beyond the court and the field and into the mind of the athletes.
That's why when "The Last Dance" started streaming, I gobbled it up. Michael Jordan was the most iconic sporting person in history worldwide. He won title after title, and racked up record after record. But what this documentary revealed about him is something that surprised me-he had a drive for more- and it could never be satisfied.
We've all got this tug, this incessant need to be searching for more. It's something that we inherited from Adam and Eve. Paul talks about where that started: “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds doing evil deeds.”
That’s where we started, but that’s not where we are. That’s where we began, but it’s not where we’ve landed. Verb tenses matter. A lot. I was married is a whole different animal than I am married. I am 20 is a whole different ballgame than I was 20. You were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds, but aren’t anymore. The gospel has come to us. So that’s not our current condition. It’s our past one. It’s how we used to think. It’s not how we think now. We’re different. We’re new. We are reconciled.
Do you see what that now means? It means that the one thing that has the height, the depth, the power, and the magnitude to satisfy the human heart is now reconciled to do that. It means that the vicious cycle that Eve was the first to perpetuate has now effectively ended. It means that the hunt for something big enough, solid enough, and important enough to set our souls on is ours to have and to enjoy and to experience now and in eternity in Jesus Christ.
