Here’s Your Ticket To The Big Game

November 01, 2018

From today’s reading…

I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the children of Israel. After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue.”

The World Series just ended in Dodger Stadium, which is the largest MLB stadium in the country with a seating capacity of 56,000 souls.

Out of those 56,000 seats maybe 10% are “premium”—you know, behind home plate or the dugouts or up in the suites, etc.

(Maybe those are the “one hundred and forty-four thousand” described in Revelation today.)

Does that mean the other 90% of the people who watched the games in “average” seats were miserable or was it the thrill of their lives regardless of where their seats were located?

Heck, I know thousands more watched on their phones or laptops in the stadium parking lot while tailgating and thousands more again paid to sit in bars and restaurants around the stadium to watch the game just to feel the energy.

Were they sad they weren’t in the stadium or were they fired up to be in the general area of the great stadium while great games were played as they were surrounded by “a great multitude” of fellow fans?

If the owners of the Dodgers want everyone in the world to get excited for their games, how much more so do you think God wants you to get excited for your eternal soul?

I guarantee you fans from China and Russia and Turkey and Brazil and Canada attended at least one of the World Series games and the Dodgers staff welcomed them with open arms.

I guarantee you Red Sox fans and Astros fans and even Oakland Raiders fans went to at least one game and the Dodgers staff welcomed them as well.

How much more loving and welcoming is God than the owners of the Dodgers? (And God’s fans won’t attack you on your way home just for wearing the wrong jersey. But I digress.)

You have a ticket to the greatest show on earth in the universe. Yes, even Alabama Crimson Tide fans are invited.

But you have to accept the ticket. You have to get your jersey on, bring your #1 foam finger, pack your cooler, grill, chairs, and chips and do what the recipient of a ticket to the biggest game ever should do, which is get directions to the stadium, leave early, and…

Stay the course.Keep the faith.Endure.