It’s been an interesting day today. Among other things I watched two documentaries from ESPN featuring the travails of sporting rivals and the pursuit of sporting glory. The documentaries were fascinating for the lengths that people go to be seen as successful. How the cost is seen as acceptable for the acclaim that is received for it, even if it is achieved through less than ‘fair’ means.
Sure, it might be an American thing, could be. Yet at the same time the whole thing of being the best and showing one’s supremacy over others is endemic in quite a lot of cultures. That aspect of pride and not wanting to look at a loss got me thinking once more about the spirit of competition that goes to the heart of what makes sport and business effective.
How can we overcome that in the church? In pursuing God and being Christ-like, esteeming others better than ourselves, I wonder if we realise how counter-cultural and even how that can go to against our own nature.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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