sports and friends

Have you heard of fair-weathered friends?  They are those people who are only your friend as long as it benefits them and not always you.

But what about fair-weathered fans?  I must admit that I don’t really care for the game of basketball.   I have broken far too many glasses because of getting smacked in the face. I also can’t throw over my head very well.  But how should that affect my watching basketball?  It makes me dizzy if I watch too long.

Don’t get me wrong, I support my local teams, which is why I’m watching the Mavericks today.  I like football, so I watch most games, or at least listen to them. I don’t like baseball so I just say, “Go, Rangers!!”  I can’t keep track of the hockey puck on TV, so I say “Go Stars!”  But, I will watch the Mavs if they are in the finals.  But, as a member of the population of the greater Dallas/ Ft. Worth population, I can be a bit wishy-washy about sports.  I can even like other teams and no one will get too mad at me.  One cannot be that way for a friend.

The Bible says many things about friends and how nice it is to have them.  But it also tells us to be truthful.  So, if I call you a friend, I better mean it.  That also means that I go all out to be a friend.  We love at all times, support at all times, pray for the other before we pray for ourselves.  People have even given their life for their friends.  Wow.  How many of us would do that?  Perhaps we should think about our friends the way when we were little.  Not school age per say, but when we trusted, shared, and loved.  The Lord did say that we should look to the children for faith.  I’m not adding more than what He said, but if we acted in faith towards others, wouldn’t we be better friends?  

Okay, I’ll have faith for my team. But, in the mean time, I will make every effort to be a better friend.