It is finally here. It is what I have been waiting for all year. That is right, NCAA Basketball tournament. I love basketball, especially college basketball, especially the NCAA tournament.
It is the time of year where upsets are always in the making and the underdog can come out on top. The tournament is a new season, where each game is your last game and if you hold back you might just be left out.
It is fantastic.
One thing about basketball that is a must. To truly enjoy the game, you don't have to know all the rules or even the lingo. You don't have to know about traveling or double dribbling or carrying. The one thing you have to do if you are truly going to enjoy the game, you have to trust what the referee sees.
Bad calls happen. Missed calls occur. No calls remain uncalled. But unless you trust the eyes of the other the game of basketball loses its beauty. As a fan, trusting the eyes of the other, the ref, is essential.
It is easy to get caught up in bad calls, missed calls, and no calls but to do so means we run the risk of the missing the game for the sake of our limited vision.
Such is basketball such is life.
In Ezekiel, The Prophet is trying to get the people to trust the vision of God, to trust what the other sees rather than trusting their our own limited view of things.
The people have grown discouraged. They can't see beyond their own noses.
In verse 37:11 the people proclaim, "Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, we are cut off."
Ezekiel simply invites them not to get caught up in bad calls, missed calls, or no calls but rather to trust in the one who sees beyond, whose vision is wider than our own. Our vision is always limited, God's vision reaches into the future and sees what will be.
His vision is without error. As limited as our view is just as unlimited is His.
"I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who believes in me will never die."
Trust the vision of the one who is light itself. In him there is no darkness.
Trust in the one who says, "Lazarus come out!" Though we did not see that coming, Jesus always knows what is in store.
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