It’s the time of year where the NFL playoffs start. Basically, there are four more weekends of football. From now on, if you lose you are done. I enjoy watching these games. Especially when my Chiefs are playing. There’s an ESPN 30 in 30 episode titled: The Four Falls of Buffalo. Some of you might remember the story. The Buffalo Bills went to four straight Super Bowls from 1990-1993. Losing each one. Many people around the world called them losers. Hard to imagine looking at a team who plays in the championship game four years in a row as losers. But they were called that. They lost the first Super Bowl to the New York Giants. That was the game that Scott Norwood, the kicker for the Bills, missed a field goal at the end of the game. Wide Right!
As you can imagine, he was devastated. He felt like he let the whole team down. The whole organization down. The whole city down. He felt like he let all of the Buffalo Bills fans down. That’s a lot to take on for sure. But this is not a devotion about Scott Norwood. Not about the Buffalo Bills. It’s about something that one of the teammates told him in the locker room.
They knew he was hurting. They knew he felt responsible for what happened. And they told him, “The Lord doesn’t give crosses to those who can’t bear them.” That made me think of the verse in the Bible telling us we can do all things through Christ. Sometimes we get that confused. Sometimes we think that’s telling us we can do all things. I think that we are wrong viewing it like that. I believe that the Bible is telling us that we can go through anything we’re facing, if we have the Lord in our heart. He will see us through. We can bear the cross that we are going through. And that’s the message that his teammate was giving him. God will see him through. Just like he will see you and me through. Through all things. No matter what they are. He will see us through. Because he loves us. Always has. Always will.
