Shake it off

Did you see that Super Bowl? Very few people gave the G-men a chance and boy...what a game! I'm a Colts fan so since Peyton wasn't in it, I was rooting for the Giants. Since my wife had jury duty today I played babysitter. While my oldest son and I played the game "LIFE" I watched ESPN because I wanted to see if I was dreaming or not. But it's reality. The Giants pulled off what some are calling the biggest upset in history. But as I watched and listened to the commentators something one of them said really caught my attention. They said when Eli broke out of the sack and scrambled right to throw the pass to David Tyree late in the fourth quarter on the game winning drive, it was if he "shook off three Patriot defenders like he was shaking off all those negative comments earlier in the season." If you follow football at all, then you know how Eli Manning and the coach, Tom Coughlin, of the Giants took a lot of harsh criticism during the season. There were people calling for Coughlin to be fired and Manning traded. Manning and Coughlin could have buckled under the pressure but they didn't! They kept cool and endured much affliction and now Eli is the Super Bowl MVP and Coughlin will be recognized as one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game. "Shake it off," that's what we are to do. When things are not going exactly according to the game plan, when life deals us uncertainty, when friends are few and far between, when the world screams at us that we are nothing but "losers" we have to stay focused. Manning said he just kept staying with a positive attitude and he wasn't going to quit fighting and it paid off. The victory is his. It's the same way with us as Christians. We cannot give up and we MUST stay focused...on Jesus, on our mission, and reaching our goals (get people saved and get to heaven). If we listen to all the distractions that the world and the devil scream in our ears, we will never gain the victory. Who are you listening too? Who has got your attention? Randy Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.