The first round of March Madness, the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship begins March 18th in Dayton, Ohio. While most sports rely on talent to win titles, momentum is a crucial element for teams to advance and move on to the next round. However, once a school experiences a losing streak, especially late in the season, its hard to find the flow that led to their initial success.
In life, each day contains a series of twists and turns, taking you to the top of Mount Everest at one moment, before an avalanche of circumstances buries your flow in a pile of humility. Subsequently, your passion for getting up vanishes, causing you to get stuck in a puddle of apathy. Like Popeye without his spinach, tasks become endless chores sucking any joy remaining in your soul. Searching for answers, people will ponder, “where did my flow go?”
The master of parables, short stories with nuggets of truth, Jesus had a way with words, helping the lost discover the flow they were looking for in life. Whether you were a Pharisee like Nicodemus, a Samaritan woman looking for love in all the wrong places or a prostitute on the verge of being stoned to death, Jesus provided clues in the Bible to obtain a flow which would last a lifetime, John 10:10. If you’re not satisfied with your current living conditions, John 3:16-17, John 4:13-14 and John 8:11-12 contains a road map for life to locate the permanent flow you desire.
by Jay Mankus
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