Sporting Heroes


Sport
In the land of Australia we love our sport and our sportsmen and women. They receive the highest praise for their achievements. No one would deny the hard work and dedication that is needed as well as exceptional skill displayed.

In the book of Judges the Scriptures of Truth mention the word sport in relation to ridicule.
The strongest man ever was named Samson. His enemies the Philistines brought about his downfall through the woman Delilah. It seemed that he was defeated when they had performed the unspeakably cruel act of “putting out his eyes” as the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible tells us.

In the sixteenth chapter of Judges and verse 25 the Scriptures say “call for Samson that he may make us sport”.

So great was his sorrow that he wanted to “die with the Philistines” and this he did. “So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life”. The Philistines died enjoying their “sport”.

It seems dear reader that we, like the Philistines, have a craving to be entertained. A wise preacher some time ago highlighted that the word amusement can be broken into ‘a’ meaning not, and muse meaning to think. In simple terms our amusements may cost us our soul’s eternal welfare.

An extreme statement you may say, but the New Testament through the words of the Saviour The Lord Jesus Christ speaks of a man who “fared sumptuously every day” yet it appears that he trusted in his own prosperity and when the vail is drawn back on eternity we see him after death- but in torments.

He had neglected the vital matter of his conduct towards his creator the God of heaven. He had neglected the poor man who was “laid at his gate”. He had not made provision for the eternal welfare of his soul by trusting in The Living God Whose Word “liveth and abideth for ever”. He is like the traitor Judas the saddest of men that we read of in the Bible.

God has made the greatest provision of all for the eternal welfare of your soul in the giving of His Blessed Son The Lord Jesus Christ. The Blessed Saviour passed through agonies spiritual and physical to procure salvation for your precious soul and mine when He died and shed His precious Blood upon the cross .

To put this salvation aside is to place yourself under the condemnation of a Holy God. Your sins cannot be forgiven apart from being cleansed by the precious Blood of Christ.

He did not spare His only Son,
But gave Him for a world undone,
And freely with that blessed One,
He givest all.


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