Basketball and Life, Part II

Pete Maravich was a great professional basketball player in the 1970s. There was a movie documenting his life years ago. It reveals that his dad was a college basketball coach. In one scene his dad gathers the college players around him. He holds up a basketball in one hand and a black marker in the other. He tells them that the ball he holds up symbolizes everything there is to know about basketball. He then draws a silver dollar size circle on the ball and says that the circle represents everything he knows about the game. He then makes a dot in the middle of the circle and tells his players that the dot represents what they know about the game. Hilarious!

He goes on to tell them he wants to teach them what he knows and implies that he desires for them to know all that can be known about the game and obviously so much has yet to be discovered. Imagine the universe that way. The basketball represents all there is to know about the universe. Planet earth represents what many scientists know about the universe. We are just specks on the planet and don’t know much although we sometimes think we do.

Imagine, there is a basketball, a marker, a circle from the marker on the ball, and a dot inside that circle. But can you imagine that there is no maker of the basketball or the black marker or the circle and dot? Of course, you can’t because it is not logical. And you think logically. We believe that Someone gave us the ability to think and discover and search beyond ourselves. There is so much to discover about this universe. We believe that Someone created it. As the City of Refuge, we believe that Someone is Jesus Christ. The adventure is in knowing Him. Even searching and analyzing the universe is just a hobby He has provided for us. It is in the relationship with Him that the true journey lies. He wants to be known and sees our condition. If you reach for Him, you will notice that His hand is already reaching for you. The expedition is waiting.