More Important Than the Superbowl

Over $150 million will be legally bet on the Superbowl this year.  Each winning player will get an extra $118,000 for this game.  It is the last football game of the season.  Last year $482 million was earned from the ads in the Superbowl.  Over 100 million will watch the Superbowl.  It seems like the most important sports event.  But 3.4 billion watched the world cup last year with the winning team taking home $38 million.  But even that does not compare to something else...
     Patriots Team Captain Matthew Slater said this: "This is not life and death.  This is not the biggest thing that we'll do.  The biggest and most important decision we'll ever make in our lives is what we do with the knowledge of Jesus Christ."  Dwayne Allen, patriot's tight end and Clemson graduate, said, "I mean having a heavenly perspective helps me keep things in perspective and where they should be.  This game is the pinnacle of my athletic career, and its supposed to be everything to me, but in the grand scheme of things, it's still a game."  [CBN quote].   For every young person and parent out to get that scholarship or that stardom, let this be a lesson.  Games are not the most important thing.  At some time even Tom Brady will retire (he's 41 now).  Our athletic ability fades, but our soul stays with us until the end. 

"For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul."  Mark 8:36

Dwayne Allen (83) gives five to Tom Brady

[Zimbio pictures Philadelphia vs New England]