As I write this, basketball fans are starving for live sports due to the coronavirus outbreak. The wait is over as ESPN released their documentary series on Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls. The Last Dance is a 10-part documentary that chronicles the Chicago Bulls 1997-98 season, which marked Michael Jordan and coach Phil Jackson’s final campaign with the franchise.

The Chicago Bulls team by Michael Jordan is considered the most powerful sports franchise of the decade and perhaps all of NBA history. They won six NBA Championships during the 1990s. Power in sports is defined as the ability to exert maximum force as quickly as possible, such as jumping, accelerating, and throwing.

2 Corinthians 4 – Made Perfect in Weakness

There is a “power paradox” in 2 Corinthians 4 that Paul describes. When we think of power, we also think about strength. The Bible teaches that God’s strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). Two thousand years ago, when God in the flesh died, the Lord, who had the power to stop it, did not.

This is a paradox because, humanly speaking, we can’t understand how the foolishness of the world becomes the wisdom of God. In 2 Corinthians 4:1-12, Paul describes the great paradox of God’s chosen messengers. The ultimate purpose of God in our weakness is to glorify the kind of power that moved Christ to the cross. God uses frail earthen vessels to attract people to God as they display the glory of God.

The Kingdom Coach and Athlete believe the Lord uses weakness, insults, hardships, and persecutions to glorify Him. They are confident that what is happening to them is part of the most significant purpose of God—the glorification of the grace and power of His Son. It is the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept Him there until the work of love was done.

Bible Memory Verse – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

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