Daily Huddle - Tue Feb 16, 2021 The Greatest Comeback Ever

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It is not only truth and light and life, wisdom and instruction – it tells stories.  One of them… about the greatest comeback ever.  A few years ago – in Superbowl LI Tom Brady and the mighty New England Patriots are down 14-0 nearing the end of the first half.  Then Tom Brady throws an interception for an 82-yard touchdown run - for the other team!  His feeble attempt to tackle the thief, only resulted in a mouthful of turf, watching a Super Bowl slip away on his own error.  What happened to the greatest quarterback ever?  The doubters and haters already starting to chirp…  But it gets worse, in the second half – they go down 28-3.  The route has begun and it’s over!  Total embarrassment.  But then something happened.  The leader was talking, he wasn’t talking trash, he was talking faith. “Just do your job!”  “Trust the process.”  And one stop became one score.  And by the end of the fourth quarter with seconds left in the game.  Tom Brady and the New England Patriots just did the unthinkable, the unimaginable.  The greatest comeback in Super Bowl History – perhaps in all of sport.  There was another time, Lebron James was down 3-1 in the NBA Finals, not playing for the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers, but the Cleveland Cavaliers.  It might have been possible… but nobody had ever done it before, in NBA History – no one has ever comeback from a 3-1 deficit.  The story was over – until the story ended, with the Cavaliers doing the impossible, what had never been done before.  Comebacks - make for incredible stories.  But there is only one greatest comeback ever, and it’s not even close.  The Savior of the World, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, crucified on a Roman Cross, declining to call a legion of angels to utterly destroy his human enemies… willingly did the will of His Father in Heaven, so we might be free, of sin, death, and the grave, and an eternity separate from God.  Jesus went into hell, took the keys, and led captives out with him.  This is the greatest comeback ever, from death to life.  It forever changed human history and all of eternity.  The ones disqualified to ever live in Heaven with a Holy God, just became holy by the blood of Jesus Christ shed for them.  Jesus himself, taking their sentence, transformed every one who will believe, into holy in God’s sight - citizens of heaven for all of eternity.  This is a comeback possible only through God.  Winning a game is something.  But going from death to life, that is another.  A game is not reality, you can always play another game, you can always come back next year, but when you die, it’s over.  He’s the God of the comeback.  And if He can do that, there is nothing in your life, He cannot do.  His grace is more than enough for what you need.  So what in your life needs a comeback?  Is there an area of your life, that is not what God designed you for, not what God told you to do, not the victory He has for you?  Are you losing in an area God created you to win?  Are you bound by something, that God died to set you free from?  Are you failing where God has called you to succeed?  He’s the God of the turnaround.  Just do your job.  Trust the Process.  He will do His.  He will forgive you.  Whether a willful sin, or harmful habit, whether choice or neglect, lack of understanding or lack of diligence, whether something you used to do but have failed to continue, or something you’ve never done before - God is the source of all comebacks.  He is the Ultimate Power, and He has victory in store for you – He knows no other.  What is Step One?  Vision.  God what have you called me to be - that I’m not walking in right now?  What area in my life do you want to change forever, from defeat to victory?  Step Two.  Get A Stop – Stop doing that thing, or those things that keep you going in this wrong direction – change needed, you need a stop! Ask God what to stop, and stop!  Step Three – Get a First Down, just get a bucket.  Get one score, and God will take it from there.  It might be a new action, or a new habit, but it will start with one step.  Ask Him what it is, and do it.  Right now!  You just start… He’ll give you grace to do it.  He’s the starter, because He’s the Creator, but He’s also the greatest finisher in all of human and non-human history.  God has a comeback for you.  God has a next thing for you, God has victory for you, and God has a life of victory for you.  Praying that the God of all comebacks, is your quarterback.  Your coach, and your lead blocker.  Praying that you will believe what He says, without it, you will never come back.  It doesn’t matter what others say.  What does God say, what did God tell you to stop, and what did God tell you to do?  Just do it!  If you listened to this Daily Huddle, your comeback has already begun.  He’s the one who started it, and He will surely finish.  He’s the finisher, the Alpha and Omega, the One with all Power and all Authority, who loves you forever.  He will fulfill His purpose for you.  You just need to believe it, and do that first stop, and take that first step.  He’ll give you His grace for the rest.
 
Love you all,
dad