Super Bowl and "Old Man's Disease"

The Super Bowl is behind us and with it another year of football. I am a big fan of the game although not as much as in years past. Some of my excitement for the game has faded in the face of millionaires who often seem far more in love with themselves than the game they play. "Team" is a loose moniker now days, applying only to names on the collective payroll of a billionaire owner. I long for the days when football possessed a bit more purity and passion. Those were better days in which the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys sold life insurance in the off season to make a living. And today I suffer from "Old Man's Disease," a longing for something from the past which seems in many ways so much better than its counterpart in the present.

I suppose there are a number of folks sitting in the pew each Sunday who also suffer from "Old Man's Disease." Often we long for something in our past whether it be a particular hymn, preacher or sanctuary which made us feel great passion and excitement for God and our faith in Him. Some of these "jewels of the past" can occasionally be recaptured but others are now forever consigned to our memory. Thank God for those the things in our history which inspired us to greater faith in Christ! Yet, isn't it good to know we are not dependent upon people, things or methods for the vitality of our faith? Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever! Aren't you excited for what God has in store for your future? If He could inspire you with so much goodness in the past just imagine what He has planned next!

James