What The Super Bowl Can Teach Us About The Soul

America’s uncompromising fixation with football teaches us a lot about the soul.

Football isn’t inherently a bad thing.

Enjoyed to a healthy degree, it’s something that is fun, brings people together, and can even drive personal discipline.

It can also give people a common goal.

Indulge too much, however, and it becomes an obsession.

Spend too much time, energy, or focus on an obsession and it becomes an idol.

A good thing becomes toxic from the outside in and knocks you off your path from the inside out.

Now it’s no longer a part of the landscape of your life, but the landscape itself.

Leaving the *actual* landscape of your life and soul nowhere to be found.

The parallel to — and inverse of — one’s external and internal worlds is uncanny.

To the opposite of football, Jesus deserves our entire focus.

And not just once, but all the time.

Faltering will happen.

Mistakes take place.

But falter too long or in too many areas and we cease to see the landscape we were always meant to see.

Not just see, but live in.

The landscape of one’s soul becomes visible the more you focus on what lies within it.

May the wise take heed.