God and Football

So the Steelers lost to the Broncos today. I'm over it. To be quite honest, I'd rather lose to Tim Tebow than Tom Brady. The former has more class than the latter. I hope they beat the Patriots next week, although I'm not holding my breath. I'm rooting for the Giants to get to the Super Bowl; failing that, the Saints. Anyway, the point of all this. I got a message through Facebook telling me that if I were a true Christian, I would have rooted for the Broncos today. Because God's apparently a Broncos fan, with Tim Tebow on the team and all. And apparently all the rest of the teams in the NFL are heathens. I applaud Tebow for not hiding his faith. But he's not the only Christian in the NFL. And he's definitely not the only one who shows his faith (Troy Polamalu, I'm looking at you).

(Yes, my boys pray, too)

People say that faith has no place in sports, because God doesn't play favorites. You're right, He doesn't. Here's how this works: God gives everyone something to work with. Then He leaves it to us. Randy Pausch wrote in The Last Lecture, "It's not about the cards you are dealt, but how you play the hand." God isn't steering everything. He may be saying "Well done, my good and faithful servant" to Tim Tebow for using what he was given to work with; however, He would say the same thing to Troy Polamalu, had the Steelers won today. So please...God doesn't love Tim Tebow more than anyone else. Tebow only seized the opportunities as they presented themselves. The Steelers didn't. That alone is why they lost.