Do you remember when Michael Jordan decided to play baseball? I will never forget the ESPN commentators pleading with him to put a stop to his nonsense. Jordan, basketball's greatest, was failing at his new endeavor...but why?
You have a man who was undeniably crafted for the game of basketball. By the time he finally ended his career he was able to claim...
Member of six NBA championship teams (1991-93, 1996-98)
Five-time NBA Most Valuable Player (1988, 1991-92, 1996, 1998)
Six-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (1991-93, 1996-98)
Ten-time All-NBA First Team (1987-93, 1996-98)
Nine-time NBA All-Defensive First Team (1987-93, 1996-98)
NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1988)
NBA Rookie of the Year (1985)
NBA All-Rookie Team (1985)
Holds the NBA Finals record for highest single-series scoring average -- 41.0 ppg (1993)
Those awards just scratched the surface of everything he was credited with.
The fact is, MJ was a basketball player - not baseball. And when he tried to do something that he wasn't, he failed. The experts, the fans, and deep down (though he won't admit it) even Jordan recognized that.
What pulled Jordan away? If he was obviously a basketball player, what made him decide to go and do something that he wasn't?
What pulls us away from who we were created and called to be?
You see, our primary function is to be one who is in union with Christ. And it’s not merely our function, it’s who we are on a fundamental level. It’s our ultimate calling, and if we neglect it and move away from it, we fail.
Paul urges us in Ephesians 4 to live consistently within our calling. Check it out. It begins like this... "I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
Stop deviating from the path that God has intended you to walk. Live... function... be who you are called to be. Are you confused as to what that might look like? Why don’t you finish up chapter 4 in Ephesians.
