Anybody, Anytime
The Arizona Diamondbacks major league baseball team have adopted the motto, "anybody, anytime" as their rallying call toward a 2007 World Series championship. It is amazingly descriptive of their "nameless, faceless" success in earning the best record in the National League regular season (by a game) this year, and first round post-season playoff victories to get to the NL Championship series. Nobody expected this degree of success. The national prognosticators place the "D-backs" as the clear underdogs. The media doesn't know how to hype a team without any (media-hyped) "superstars" and you can almost feel the awkwardness as they begin to report on the "anybody, anytime" theme. However, as foreign as this concept generally is for the media, I believe it is welcomed much more by many of us in the real world.
It also happens to be a very Christian theme. For example, 1 Corinthians 1:27,29,31 says, "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong... that no man should boast before God... Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." God has a way of using any of us at anytime, especially when we remember to give Him the credit. Again, in 1 Peter 5:6 it says, "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time." This principle applies to any of us in all walks of life-- even those in government.
I don't know how far the D-backs will actually go in this run for the World Series pennant, but I sure like their rallying call. Who knows, maybe God does too? While watching the first game of the NL Championship series against the Rockies on TV earlier tonight, at one point a camera angle caught the flash of a sign held up by a row of fans that said: "GO D-BACKS!" Because, the sign was made of individual letters and were all next to each other, it could also be read: "GOD-BACKS!"
It also happens to be a very Christian theme. For example, 1 Corinthians 1:27,29,31 says, "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong... that no man should boast before God... Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." God has a way of using any of us at anytime, especially when we remember to give Him the credit. Again, in 1 Peter 5:6 it says, "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time." This principle applies to any of us in all walks of life-- even those in government.
I don't know how far the D-backs will actually go in this run for the World Series pennant, but I sure like their rallying call. Who knows, maybe God does too? While watching the first game of the NL Championship series against the Rockies on TV earlier tonight, at one point a camera angle caught the flash of a sign held up by a row of fans that said: "GO D-BACKS!" Because, the sign was made of individual letters and were all next to each other, it could also be read: "GOD-BACKS!"
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