I Heart UNLV!

Day 118

I’m not big into basketball, college or otherwise – I’ll go to a Bucks game and enjoy it thoroughly, but I don’t follow the sport like I do baseball or football. This is in spite of the fact that I attend basketball-crazed Marquette.

Then March Madness rolls around and it all changes. I find myself rooting as if my life depended on it for teams like Virginia Commonwealth and Long Beach State. It has nothing to do with brackets – it’s all about the underdog. Like George Mason last year. Like UNLV tomorrow. Unfortunately, not like Marquette. We lost in the first round this year. Again.

The same thing happens with the World Cup – last summer I scheduled my breaks at work for times when the games were coming down to the wire so I could go upstairs and catch the last few minutes on the big screen. “Let’s go Trinidad and Tobago!” “Let’s go Angola!” Only once every four years am I this into soccer, at least until all the underdogs are eliminated. I watch exclusively for the upset. France and Italy in the final? Snooze. Unless you like France or Italy, of course.

Sometimes I have to break my rules and cheer for good ol’ number one. Grandpa’s got me rooting for Kansas, his alma mater. But if they meet the Runnin’ Rebels or the Butler Bulldogs, I’m definitely going to be torn.

Onward.

Ten more “spiritual vitamins”. These taste great!

1. My sins have been taken away (John 1:29; Heb. 9:26; 1 John 3:5).
2. My sins have been completely purged (Heb. 1:3).
3. My sins will never be remembered by God (Heb. 8:12; 10:17).
4. I have been washed (1 Cor. 6:11; Tit. 3:5; Rev. 1:5).
5. I will walk with Christ in white (Rev. 3:4-5).
6. I have been healed by His wounds (1 Pet. 2:24).
7. I have been forgiven all trespasses (Col. 2:13; 1 John 2:12).
8. I have been fully justified (Rom. 4:5; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 2:16; Tit. 3:7).
9. I am reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19; Col. 1:20).
10. I am made nigh by the blood of Christ (Eph. 2:13).