"I saw a Robin" shouted one kid.
"Snow is melting" yelled another.
"I like bacon" said another (there's one in everycrowd)
"It's almost Spring Break" a first grader eagerly exclaimed.
"It's March Madness" I confidently thought.
March Madness. That is a good way to describe it; not the craziness that happens in the actual tournament - buzzer beaters, upsets, cinderella teams - but the craziness that seems to infect the general public. For the next few weeks weekends will be taken up with basketball games, people's emotions will be manipulated by a bracket they filled out using the scientific methods of gut feeling and coin flips, and work will take a back seat to the ability to watch games live online. We truly have gone mad.
Now I'm not condemning this, in fact I love this time of year.
I am just wondering what would happen if we gave this much attention to other areas of our life - especially our spiritual life.
What if we poured the same devotion that we give to our bracket to our Bible?
What if we dedicated ourselves to watching our spiritual walk like we watch a Cinderella teams?
What if our Bible studies were filled with as much life as our watch parties?
As great as a buzzer-beater to upset a top seed is, or as amazing a perfect bracket is (especially this year) they fade in comparison to the wonder that is the Gospel. For in the Gospel we find an underdog being given the greatest gift of all - life; while this gift is offered freely, it did come at a price - the death of the Son of God. Jesus, God's Son, took the sin of the world upon himself, was killed in the most brutal fashion the world has ever seen, and three days later rose from the dead. This is a lot more inspiring, awesome, and wonderful than any basketball play we have seen or ever will see. This should be what infects our speech and orders our lives...
...or maybe I'm just crazy.
