I remember when I was a freshman playing on the varsity when we played our rival it was the most physical game that I have ever seen. Guys were being carried off the field from vicious hits. Some of the hits could be heard in the bleachers. As I think back about those days as well as all of the years  I watch the Canes dominate, I was trying to figure out how competition could apply to the christian faith. It would make me mad if i could find out that there was no competition when we go to the new world. Here is my understanding.

God created us in this world and pronounced it good. Whatever we enjoy in this life will be part of the new world. That includes recreation. But are we gonna have winners and losers in the new world? It comes back to that game  in my freshman year. It was such a hard fought game that I do not even remember who won. Although as a Cane losing is unacceptable. I do not believe that God like losing. It is one of the reasons that I spent many hours a day speaking the curses. You see we were never created to endure any opposition. So the more I spoke the curses the more I experience peace and rest. If we could kill the tension then we could walk around this world feeling like we were made in the garden of Eden. I feel in control. The reason we must win on this side of eternity is because everyone is corrupted. God did not make us to be a stumbling block by being sinful and corrupted.  Christ had to endure the opposition of corruption and be the sacrifice by dying in order to overcome corruption  If Christ had to endure the opposition then we should try to silence the effects of corruption.

Christ became a curse for us so that we could be free. Even tho corruption has died in  the death of Christ we still must subdue the corruption that is opposing us. Even tho we have to christian teams playing against each other we still must kill corruption. God is the only one who never exposes our corruption because God is the only one without corruption. But we live in a world that is impossible for us to hide the corruption of others. We are all competing to kill the corruption and win. We cannot accept a good effort or destroying 80 percent. We must put it to death. We must honor Christ death.So when we win we are like Christ. We win the struggle with the opposition of corruption no matter if it is an unbeliever or a believer.

But when we are on the other side there will not be corruption. So I believe that the game is gonna be so good that no one will care if it ends in a tie. Because no one will practice evil opposition. The game will be played for the highest pleasure of all the people. But on this side we fight at all times and we must win.