Playing The Position God Gives Us

Playing the Position God Gives Us

We live by believing and not by seeing. 2 Corinthians 5:7

Faith is a big component in a football team’s game plan. Our team ran a “Cover 2” defense, an assignment-oriented plan that requires faith and trust to work. Players can’t just run to the ball in a Cover 2, even though that’s what their natural instincts tell them to do. They have to protect their areas, guard the gaps, and trust the system, whether it looks like they are going to be involved in the play or not. If each player can depend on the others to carry out their assignments, the defense works effectively. If they don’t have faith in their teammates, they abandon the plan and open up holes for the offense to exploit.

Running an offense requires faith too. A quarterback has to throw the ball to a spot before the receiver has gotten there or even begun to cut in that direction. He has to trust that the receiver will run his route correctly, and the receiver has to stick with the route that was planned, trusting that the ball will arrive in the right place at the right time. If either player depends entirely on what he sees and not on the plan as it was designed, the pass will result in an incompletion or an interception. They have to believe in the route.

That’s how life works too. We have to trust that the assignment God has given us is the right one, whether it looks like we’re in the middle of the action right now or not. We need to know that the people and circumstances around us are running a pattern that will work out for good. Or that the route we’re running is designed well and that the ball will get to us in the right spot at the right time. As we carry out our assignments faithfully, the results will come. We need to forsake our natural instincts and play our position, no matter how things look, and trust that the plan will work. That’s what it means to live by faith, not by sight.

Uncommon Key > Play your God-given position as well as you can, realizing that your assignment fits into a bigger picture. Do your best, forget the rest, and trust that God really is in control.