Against the Giants (a short sub-post)

i got to drive someone back home today, and it was really nice because i felt like i could identify with him. and i'm not sure what he believes or anything, but it didn't matter, because i could still identify with him. it was nice to talk to someone so down to earth, someone who i could just feel was tired, because of school and late nights and all of it... because it was like he wasn't still putting on masks to try to make me think he was someone else. and i talked to him a little about God, and... it was just nice.

they watched a football movie called Against the Giants or something about a high school football coach who has six losing seasons and can't have kids because he is infertile, and then he starts believing in God. by the end, they have not only won the state championship by a long-shot miracle (a game they shouldn't have been in that resulted in the back-up kicker nailing a 51-yard field goal when he had only kicked 39 before) and also knowing that his wife had become pregnant by another miracle. and the whole point was that nothing is impossible with God.

what i started saying but i didn't get to finish was that it didn't have to be like that. faith in God isn't about winning state championships. it's about God. but people will watch the movie and try to use God to win state championships, some people won't even start believing in God until He shows them miracles, some people are still asking "what can i get from God?" and that's not what faith is. faith isn't about winning state championships, and faith is still rejoicing in God's name even if He doesn't let you win that state championship. i also wanted to say that some people say you can't really know - you can't know that God is God, it's just another philosophy like everything else, it's just something that could be considered relative truth. Maybe that works for you, but i'm gonna live my own life, i'm doing fine by myself. but... you really can know. it's not a blind faith, it's certainly not. you can know, you just have to really be searching. "You will find Me when you search for me with all your heart" says somewhere in Jeremiah.