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This little hashtag cracked me up, #NotMySuperBowl, as in I didn’t vote for either of these teams, so I’m now launching a protest and a boycott. This idea was driven home yet again when the kid asked dad about the Superbowl and which team we were “voting” for.
Cheering, we’re cheering, not voting.
Sigh. You would think it would be a simple matter explaining that football is more of a game of skill and chance, outcomes being far more random than something based on our own approval or disapproval, our personal endorsement. We don’t vote on winners or losers in football, not so much, there’s a lot more random happenstance and synchronicity at play. Sadly, that mindset, that the whole world operates on whether we approve or disapprove, is so representative of the modern world, so today there is My Will and then there is plain old Wrong.
I was thinking of this is terms of confession. Confession really just means to come into agreement with. In this case we are coming into agreement with God. It can involve some wrong doing like snapping at someone and we are agreeing with God that we were wrong, or it can mean coming into agreement with God when He says we have such worth and value He gave His very life for us. That’s truth, that’s His word, so “to confess,” to come into agreementΒ with, in that case is to acknowledge the sin of having allowed the world to teach you something contrary to God’s word. To have failed to recognize your own value and the investment God made in you.
To confess, to come into agreement with God, can simply mean to recognize one’s weaknesses, one’s own powerless to force outcomes beyond our own control. That’s one of those faultless sins, as in perhaps you hit a deer and you are totally blameless and yet you may need forgiveness just the same. I tend to be that way, I’m sorry for cars, I’m sorry for the loss of this animal, I’m sorry I was unable to stop. I hate the whole human race, I hate pointless death, I hate not having control……I can go deep, and deeper still into confession and intercession.
Don’t laugh, I hit a raccoon once and it took me six weeks of prayer, confession, and intercession. And the poor raccoon actually hit me, before running back under the car three more times.
Confession is not always about wrong doing in the obvious and glaring sense. It is about submission and surrender, coming into agreement with God, recognizing our great need for Him, admitting His ways are greater than ours, His will is vastly superior, and then trusting what He says about that, “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
We can call those things that are beyond our control, “God’s will.” As in often we have to surrender our own will and accept outcomes we did not always “vote for.”
It’s unfortunate that surrender and submission leave such a bad aftertaste since they are such protective words, meant to elevate us to a status of loved and cherished. But then, I guess it all tasted better before we bit the apple.
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It is unfortunate, isn’t it? People tend to have such a negative view as if we are talking about surrendering to bullies or something. There’s too much of the people world clouding our relationship with God.
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That was very witty Dawn
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I agree with this movement, IB. I voted for the Indianapolis Colts and they didn’t even make it past the primaries! Super Bowl LI is #NotMySuperBowl!
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Awesome! Let’s go egg some houses or something. π
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Let’s go to Tom Brady’s house with anti-Trump signs and anti-Super Bowl signs!
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Ha! We should, stir up a bit of trouble,let them know what we really think of this superbowl. π
I would suggest just stirring up some dip, maybe some chips, kicking back to enjoy the whole thing, but apparently that’s just not done anymore π
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Thankfully, Lady “baby-talk” is singing at the half-time show to give us all a voice!
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Sorry it’s #notyoursuperbowl. #itmustbemine. π
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Patriots or Falcons?
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Falcons…Falcons…Did I say Falcons?!π
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Shame on you and the whole family. Being a native down here, I’m with the Falcons. Mind you, I don’t know who’s on either team. They said at the job to wear black and red, so went with the flow. For a non joiner, I was somewhat shocked myself. Guess I’m get old and tired of being oppositional.
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LOL! Good news, I hear we’re “voting” for the Falcons, too. I don’t have a clue, so it works for me. π
People dress up here, too. We take it very seriously, lots of lime green and blue. I’m a non joiner too, but those fans don’t let you get away with nothing. π
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That’s right. Vote for the Falcons. May end up being a just and fair outcome.
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Great way to launch a spiritual conversation IB.
I’d go burn something for my local pro team not making it, but we don’t have such a thing here in Arkansas unless you count the minor league baseball team in Little Rock
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From what I’ve seen and heard, support for the university football team down there is every bit as intense–maybe even more intense–as support for any professional team. Also true in other states that have no pro teams (Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama, etc.) J.
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Yep…we love our Razorbacks!!!
Wooooooooooooo….pigggggggggggggggg…sooooooooooooooiiieeeeeeeeeeee!!!
And all the worst wishes to Bama
Just sayin
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Here is some Super Bowl Mathematics: (Washington Redskins are not in the Super Bowl + The Patriots ARE in the Super Bowl + Lady Gaga is the Halftime show) = #NotMySuperBowl
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my Broncos didn’t even make it to the playoffs + New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl AGAIN = #notmysuperbowl LOL
(Although if I had to root for anybody, I’d like to see Atlanta win it.) π
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Well, aren’t you a strange one…But a good writer!!!
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Good post. Especially the part about what confession means. I was blown away the first time I fully understood that confession meant agreeing with God. Literally in the Greek it is “homolego” which means “say the same.” Thanks for this post.
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Me too! “Say the same,” isn’t that amazing? I love that. π
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Brilliant! Yes, we have to turn things over to God – Who is in control – and not pout about the things we didn’t vote for. I feel for you about the raccoon. I still feel bad when I remember the armadillo that my sheepdog accidentally killed. (He was just trying to hold it still and herd it.)
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