Old School Basketball

I am watching an old basketball game from 1990. Why can't we have basketball players like that now. The awesome box haircuts, medium shorts...and let's face it...skill. Basketball back then was more about the fun of the game. But now it seems like the game is about the incentives, professional opportunities and prestige. But what has happened to the love of the game?

The same goes for our love towards God. It starts off as the main focus. It is all about the relationship and the glory and love that can be brought to God. And yet, as the years progress we tend to lose focus and look for the blessings of God in our lives and the fruits of God that will be presented to us rather than just having that pure love and joy for Him. This is common even back in the Old Testament days. Look at the Isrealites. They wandered in the desert for 40 years, and God had provided for them yet they did not see the blessings that God bestowed upon them. Rather than showing God the love that He had shown them, they complained about the journey.

I wonder how many times in my life in general, these mere 24 years that I have lived, have I truly known about God but yet have not KNOWN God. I am pretty sure that I can't it on more than 2 hands. Why is it that we go through this? Why do we tend to fall back from the true light in which we are supposed to live and live our own ways? We are once in love with God and are "on fire" for God and then all of a sudden our flame dims.

And then something happens...and we run back into the light only to find out that the light never dimmed but we walked along the edge of the glow and eventually stumbled out of the light and got scared. I don't know why it happens. I don't understand it but it does happen.

And sometimes we need to go back to the basics. The time when things were fresh and new and we loved it. Where it's not mundane or commonplace.

Sometimes we need to keep in focus the way things used to be while also looking forward at the possibilities. Who knew back in 1990 that 18 years later college basketball would be corrupt for the incentives of a scholarship and promotional goodies, and that the shorts would extend below the knee caps and that there would no longer be box haircuts instead they are replaced with corn rows and tattoos? Would that change the way the game is played now if it was known back then? Probably not...but who wants to know about the future?