The first of Satan’s schemes is to distract people from God by giving them activities that draw them in and leave God out. The first of these is sports. Invented nearly 3000 years ago by the Greeks, sports now is internationally a gigantic industry and pastime. Instead of teaching our children about God, parents now encourage them to be involved in a endless pursuit of sports.
Deuteronomy 11:18-21 "You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. "You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
God never commanded anyone to participate in sports. Yet, today even ‘churches’ have large sports ‘ministries’! Sports span all seasons, times of day, venues, degrees of expertise, ages, sexes, and lengthy time commitments. All of this to promote team work, personal achievements, fame, fortune, physical acumen, scholarships, and bragging rights of the parents. Sports is both for participates and spectators. The crazed emotional support of teams and individuals borders on worship. It is $74+billion a year industry in the U.S.
As the world becomes less and less biblical and more and more idolatrous, it has not become better. It is not more ethical, moral, law-abiding, or concerned with needs of others. Whose will is being done with all this frenzied, fanatical pursuit of sports? Not God’s will.