A basketball coach tells his team the following just before they go out on the court. The same coaching counts for life, especially the Christian life.
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You are going out on that court, five against five, against your peers—the outcome fair game. Give it everything you’ve got, leave it all on the court—start the game with integrity, play with integrity, and end with integrity. You will need that, above and beyond ability, for those times when you will be five against seven.
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In the ‘game of life’, every Christian is in a battle, a war, a spiritual war—and much of it is unseen, and much of it is unfair. How do we deal with that, like the basketball team against five opponents plus the refs? How? We go to the Bible, read it often, so we can quote it out loud to the unseen enemies in the war.
“We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (physical), but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Use the name of Jesus and the Word of God, and defeat the enemy.
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