It’s going to be a fascinating NBA offseason as key free agents are available, multiple players are on the trade block, and rumors swirl around regarding where players will end up.
Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Kyrie Irving, Jimmy Butler, and Kemba Walker are All-Stars facing big decisions on which team they will play for next year. Do they want to return and remain where they’ve been or move on and start fresh somewhere else? Has Durant had enough of Golden State? Would Kawhi really leave Toronto after a championship win?
Plenty of teams are deciding whether or not to re-sign their key free agents while there are other teams taking the steps to trade players currently on their roster so they can head in a different direction.
Over the next couple of weeks, all the news will center around players being re-signed or traded or signing with a new team. We’ve even heard rumors of possible sign-and-trade deals too. Many of these moves will be franchise-altering with implications that will ripple across the NBA.
The decision between re-signing or trading also takes place in our own hearts and minds. We must choose between staying in our old life of sin…or trading temporary pleasures for eternal satisfaction found in Jesus.
In other words, we can either sign an extension with our former habitual ways…or move on to a new beginning with Jesus.
When we do decide to follow Jesus and embrace the benefits of moving on from our past, it’s silly to try and re-sign with our former team once we’ve agreed to move on.
Proverbs 26:11 (ESV) provides this descriptive and graphic example: “Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 give us hope when we make the decision to trade away our old lives: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!”
Although the outcome for many of these NBA players can work in their favor if they re-sign, as followers of Jesus, we must refrain from “re-signing” with our former way of life and remain committed to the trade and the new life we have in Jesus.
Today, let’s make sure we trade our former patterns of sin for God’s grace through Jesus, so we can be confident of the future we’re guaranteed in Romans 2:7 (NLT): “He will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers.”
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PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank you for giving me a new life and allowing me to trade my former patterns of sin for Your grace through Jesus. I pray I would remain committed to You long-term as You continually extend Your grace to me. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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