“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.” 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/1co.9.24-27.NIV

The Super Bowl is the pinnacle event of the football season. All the work, training, and effort by everyone resulted in only two teams playing and one team winning. Then it’s over. Next year it starts again. Life is similar, but only one game is played. No next year exists. We give our lives to whatever we believe to be most important now. Some of us live to the end of those goals and experience the fruit of our labor, whatever that labor and effort was working toward. Others fall along the way, like the injured player during the season. They never receive the reward they gave their lives for. After this life, we meet the Lord Jesus. He is the Judge of all humanity because He is the Lord of all humanity. He is God and man, so He alone can judge men as God. He will judge us based upon His instructions to us found in the Scripture He had recorded for us so that we could know Him and do His will, being welcomed into His presence with reward rather than condemned by Him for ignoring Him to suffer for all eternity away from Him in the never quenching fires of hell. What He requires of us is simple, logical, and correct because of Who He is. We must love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. What else would God require of us? That He is our Super Bowl. That He is the win we want above all things. Pleasing Him and doing His will are the purposes of our lives. When this is true, we win. He will know and welcome us into the eternal dwelling place He has created for us to live with Him forever in perfect peace, prosperity, love, and joy. To love ourselves first, choose our own Super Bowl, and decide for ourselves our purpose and meaning for our lives is to reject our Creator, deny our Maker, and suffer His condemnation upon our arrival before Him when He holds us accountable for obedience to Him. The choice is ours. What is our Super Bowl?