This afternoon I watched a movie on TBN called "Facing the Giants". It was about a football team whose coach worked to teach them that playing football was more than a game. It was about doing better than your best for God in whatever you did and win or loose you praise the Lord. He trained them hard until they gave him their very best. He drilled in into them and got them to loose their fear. He taught them to watch their defeatist thoughts and not think that they cannot do it but rather that with God everything is possible. The coach and his wife faced situations that made them ask "If God does not give you a _____, will you still love the Lord." Once they resolved that they would love the Lord no matter what, their lives changed for the better.

It is not that I have not come to face these same ideas before but the movie made me think about them again.