Nike sold a lot of shoes with the slogan “Just Do It”. Now I am not a bible scholar or a schooled professional minister, but I think Nike should give some church some where some amount of money because they did not come up with it. The VCU basketball team took the quote to heart in the upset win over Kansas in the NCAA basketball tournament. Every coach goes into each game with a certain game plan. The idea is that you come up with a plan and put your players in position to basically win the game. The catch is the players have to follow the game plan. They have to “Just Do It”. The VCU players did just that. They listened to their coach and they followed his game plan. Well, God has a game plan for us. In James we read that we are not supposed to just read the game plan but we are to put it into practice also. If the VCU players would have just read and listened to the coach’s game plan and not put it into practice they have not have come out on top. It is good to read the bible, God’s Game Plan, but if we don’t put it into practice it does us very little good. If we read on in James 1 we see James telling people that we listen but do it we are like a man that forgets what he looks like after he has just looked into a mirror. In the last few words of James 1:25 James tells us that when we read God’s Game Plan and put it into action we will be blessed for what we do. Just like the VCU basketball team we will profit from following God’s Game Plan. Every coach wants to win. Every coach puts together a game plan that will give his or her team the best opportunity to win, be blessed. We have the perfect coach in God. When we are only readers of the word and not doers of the word, we short change the plan that God has for us. We must be compelled to put His plan into action in our daily lives.
