In January of 1969 (not too long before yours truly was born!), the NFL and the AFL were still two separate leagues. The AFL wasn't considered an equal at all. Super Bowl III was all set between the NFL's Baltimore Colts and the AFL's New York Jets. The Colts has star power across the board, scoring the 4th most points on offense and leading the league in defense. The classic powerhouse team and a heavy favorite.
The Jets, on the other hand, had some offensive talent even though QB Joe Namath (he was only 25) threw more interceptions than touchdowns that year. Several Jets players were cast-offs from NFL teams. But just three days before the game while making a public appearance, a Colts fan heckled Broadway Joe, inciting the young QB to utter the now famous prediction..."We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it."
He called his shot, and it helped rally his team to overcome the odds...and it worked! The Jets defeated the Colts 16 - 7 in one of the biggest upsets in sports history. The leagues merged shortly after that season and Broadway Joe reached a level of celebrity that far exceeded his accomplishments on the football field.
You know, I've been following a reading plan on YouVersion that has me reading the entire Bible in 90 days. What I've come to understand from reading so much of it so quickly is that God is big on calling His shots too. Anytime in the Old Testament that God would say "Here is what I'm about to do" you could be sure that it was going to happen.
Maybe the surest evidence we have as to whether God is everything He says He is can be found in the knowledge that He tells you exactly what is to come and then follows through with it. I can't think of any other gods worshipped anywhere else in the world that have anything close to that kind of track record. How awesome is the one true God that you know He doesn't make promises that He doesn't keep?
He told Israel He was taking them to a land of their own...and He did.
He told of the coming of Jesus, repeatedly, through the line of David...and He came.
He told us, through Jesus, that Jesus would come again and bring all who believe back with Him...and He will.
Thanks be to God for loving us enough to prove it and thanks be to Jesus for being our sacrifice. Can I get an Amen???
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Great devotion. I remember the first time I sat down and read the gospel of Matthew all at one time. I was struck by the cohesiveness of God's plan and how absolutely and consistently the disciples were just idiots. I mean, we know they were, but you miss out on how monumentally frustrating their dunder-headedness truly was. Yet Jesus still loved them. Gives me some hope.
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