March Madness

March Madness is about to begin.

I don’t have much of an opportunity to watch TV because of evening meetings and activities but I really enjoy a Saturday during March watching the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Selection Sunday is coming up on March 12. 5:00 p.m. CST. Fans, Teams and Coaches will be glued to the TV to hear if their team makes the NCAA field of 64. It will be a day of joy for some, and for others and it will be a day of heartbreak for many schools that have had good years but will be left out of the tournament.

The NCAA Basketball Tournament is a billion dollar venture.

Many people fill out those brackets trying to guess who might make the Final 4 and then who will become the National Champion.

Some get so engrossed into it, they gamble life savings and bet on the contests. Many people lose everything they have because they feel they know who is going to be crowned National Champion.

Our country really does get wrapped up in this sporting event.

March Madness is great if we keep it in perspective. But there is something that is even greater to long for than a basketball tournament.

“O for A Home With God, A Place in His Courts to Rest”. I love that song. I love the lyrics. I love the God who blessed us so greatly by sending His Son to the earth so we could live with Him in forever. To me that is better than any sporting event, any vacation spot, any new car, new house, new job. A relationship and an eternal home with God should be our number one goal as a Christian.


1 John 2:15-17

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever"

We need to press toward the goal that we should have in life:

Phil. 3:12-14

"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus"