I was watching some of the best moments in NBA Draft History at Basketball TV (BTV) the other day.
Big names in the NBA, most notably guys like Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, or even as far back as the time of Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing during the 1980s, were all featured to give viewers a front-court seat of what really took place during that particular moment.
In the NBA, the Draft is considered the defining moment of any aspiring professional basketball player.
It’s in the draft where they either realize their dream of a bright, financial future, or a busted basketball career.
It’s where they hear David Stern, the legendary NAB commissioner’s voice make the formal announcement: “For the first pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select_____________”
NBA teams, long before the much-anticipated draft proceedings make extensive research on players they want to draft.
They go through the players’ collegiate profile, family background and his capabilities to play basketball—scoring, rebounding, defense and strong work ethics.
No wonder, aspiring pro basketball players cross their fingers come D-Day, especially if they are not the media favorite, because they don’t really know if they’ll be taken in by any team.
As I think of the NBA Draft, how many people among the 7 billion living in this planet are itching to get drafted in God’s winning team?
Last night, I helped King (of FEU) jumpstart his own small group composed of the FEU men’s taekwondo team.
We talked about the difference between just being a fan (of God) and a follower.
At the end of our 45-minute small group, all eight of them wanted to be drafted in God’s winning team.
In God’s draft process, He doesn’t necessarily consider our talent, our stats, or our ability to produce. He’ll handpick us even in our “dirtiest”, lowest moment.
He’ll simply cleanse us from our sinful past through Christ’s finished work on the cross, before giving us a new and far better life, than we used to live. That’s what you call grace.
1 Peter 2:9 says, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
God’s drafted choice may not be the best and the brightest in the world, but they sure belong to Him because their purpose from there is to give God the praise and bring His light to this dark world.
Are you part of God’s winning team? Who else among your circle of friends, needs to be part of God’s winning team?
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