The coach was standing at the entrance to the rugby pitch with a clipboard in his hand. David could see players practicing on the field behind him. The coach looked up and asked David if he wanted to play.
“What do you mean?”, David inquired.
“We need players. If you want to play you can.”, replied the coach.
David responded with an enthusiastic “yes” and was invited onto the field. However, he was immediately ushered to the edge of the field to a steep ravine and was told by the coach to scramble down the steep slope.
When David got a fair ways down the loose dirt and rock incline he looked up only to see the head coach of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team standing high above him at the top of the slope. Steve Hanson was surrounded by the All Black players watching David.
He then tossed a rugby ball to David.
David scrambled up the hill to get to the ball, but the ground was very loose. He found it extremely difficult to get his footing. He jumped to catch the ball, but he could not create much power in such shifting ground. The ball sailed over David’s outstretched arms.
Coach Hanson looked down at David and said,
“If you want to be on this team and play in this game you better be able to keep your footing.”
David woke up. Wow – what a dream.
When David asked the Lord what the dream meant he sensed the Lord speaking to him about Truth, and the need to stand on Truth.
There is no way we can play on the team in the game into which we are being called if we do not stand on the Truth. It is imperative we believe the Truth and not the lies of the enemy. The only firm foundation upon which we can stand is the Truth. The only way we can generate the power necessary to move forward in victory is by being rooted in the Truth.
Jesus is the Truth. The Word of God is Truth. Jesus has sent us the Spirit of Truth to guide us in all Truth. We must be filled with and rooted in the Logos (written) Word of God, and the Rema (spoken) Word of God.
Jesus said that His sheep listen to His voice – they listen to the leading of the Spirit of God. He also said that Heaven and Earth will pass away, but His Word will last forever. Jesus is the Word of God. Jesus combated the Whisper Campaign of Satan in the wilderness with the Logos Word of God.
We must get the Word of God into our heart. In Joshua 1 we are exhorted to meditate on the Word of God day and night in order for us to be successful in life. The only way we can take our place in this epic “game’ called the Kingdom of God is if we ensure we are meditating on the Truth of the Word of God – which is the constitution of the Kingdom – so that we will live the way we were created, crafted and called to live. So we live as citizens of the Kingdom of Light, not the Kingdom of Darkness.
Daily devotions are not some cute little religious exercise. Our capacity to live in the freedom of the Kingdom – to be on the team and play the game of the Kingdom – is directly proportional to our willingness and commitment to believe the Truth of God and not the lies of the enemy.
Only by standing on the solid rock of Truth will we have the power to be victorious in the game into which we have been drafted by Jesus. Getting our footing solid is imperative for victorious living. If you find yourself falling short of the life you believe Jesus promised you, then perhaps you are not standing in and on the Truth of God in order to overcome the oppositional lies of the enemy.
You want to start winning? Keep your footing firm in the Truth of God. Read it. Memorize it. Meditate on it.
John 8:31, 32
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’”
John 14:6
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”’
John 16:13
“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.”