I’ve been obsessed with the New England Patriots’ “Deflate-gate”
uproar, listening to both sides of the issue.
Some football aficionados are unconcerned and consider the entire
episode as Patriot haters making a mountain out of a mole hill. Their contention is that every quarterback
has a preference and has been lubricating, inflating or deflating the football
for years despite league regulations.
This is no big deal. The other
side believes the Patriot coach, quarterback and or the entire team should be
suspended leaving the Super Bowl in limbo.
The investigation is ongoing but it is highly suspicious when only one
team’s footballs are deflated on the same field under the same conditions. If true, the rule was broken. That’s called cheating.
James 2:10-11
10 For whoever keeps the whole [a]law and yet
stumbles in one point, he has
become guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not
commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the blaw.
Let’s not get sanctimonious. We have all cheated. We have all broken the
law. Whether you ran the stop sign or have
committed armed robbery, you are still a lawbreaker. A gossip is on par with an adulterer. We like to knit pick the failure of others
not acknowledging the failure in our own lives.
The law was given so that we might know sin. No one could keep the entire law because if
you cheated in one area, you broke the entire law. Thank God for grace. Jesus Christ did for us what we could not do
for ourselves. He came to offer cheaters
a way to the Father. Admit you are a
cheater (Tom Brady), ask for forgiveness (Coach Belichick) and believe Jesus
Christ died for your cheating. In all
seriousness, there is no such thing as insignificant cheating. When the line is crossed, the rule or law is
broken, it’s called cheating. Cheating in
football can cost a chance to appear in the Super Bowl, cheating in life can
cost eternal paradise in the presence of God.
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