NEW SERIES: Seeing All the Field
NEW SERIES: Introduction
When I played football, my coaches drilled one message into us: keep your head in the game. Know the score, know the situation, know who’s on the field. We called it seeing the whole field. In basketball it’s court-sense. In life it’s awareness—because when you stop paying attention, you get blindsided.
Scripture calls this wisdom. Not just information, but chokmah—the practiced, experienced skill of making the right choice at the right time. David taught Solomon this early, and Solomon later concluded, “Wisdom is better than strength” (Ecclesiastes 9:16). Why? Because strength, speed, and brilliance don’t guarantee outcomes. Time and chance happen to us all (9:11). God is doing more than watching the game—He orchestrates times and opportunities.
Seeing the field means seeing more than your training, your background, your tribe, or your personal angle. How you see determines how you live. Jesus warned that if your eye is bad, your whole life fills with darkness (Matthew 6:23). Paul taught that what we behold, we become (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Wisdom gives you that bigger view—God’s view. Jonah had to learn it in the dark belly of a fish. Job learned it in suffering when he stopped talking about God and started talking to God. The wrong view of God leads to small, fearful, tribal decisions. The right view leads to maturity, love, and wise choices.
To see the whole field you must seek the third-eye—God’s perspective. Not left or right, not black or white, not political or denominational, but the whole picture. God is not an absentee landlord; His wisdom reaches into time, work, money, relationships, leadership, life, and death. And Ecclesiastes ends with this simple truth: the whole duty of man is to prioritize God and live by His wisdom.
If you want to make the right choice at the right time, you must first learn to see the whole field. That’s the heartbeat of this series of talks.
Grace to you,
Cedric
Traditionalwriter@yahoo.com
When I played football, my coaches drilled one message into us: keep your head in the game. Know the score, know the situation, know who’s on the field. We called it seeing the whole field. In basketball it’s court-sense. In life it’s awareness—because when you stop paying attention, you get blindsided.
Scripture calls this wisdom. Not just information, but chokmah—the practiced, experienced skill of making the right choice at the right time. David taught Solomon this early, and Solomon later concluded, “Wisdom is better than strength” (Ecclesiastes 9:16). Why? Because strength, speed, and brilliance don’t guarantee outcomes. Time and chance happen to us all (9:11). God is doing more than watching the game—He orchestrates times and opportunities.
Seeing the field means seeing more than your training, your background, your tribe, or your personal angle. How you see determines how you live. Jesus warned that if your eye is bad, your whole life fills with darkness (Matthew 6:23). Paul taught that what we behold, we become (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Wisdom gives you that bigger view—God’s view. Jonah had to learn it in the dark belly of a fish. Job learned it in suffering when he stopped talking about God and started talking to God. The wrong view of God leads to small, fearful, tribal decisions. The right view leads to maturity, love, and wise choices.
To see the whole field you must seek the third-eye—God’s perspective. Not left or right, not black or white, not political or denominational, but the whole picture. God is not an absentee landlord; His wisdom reaches into time, work, money, relationships, leadership, life, and death. And Ecclesiastes ends with this simple truth: the whole duty of man is to prioritize God and live by His wisdom.
If you want to make the right choice at the right time, you must first learn to see the whole field. That’s the heartbeat of this series of talks.
Grace to you,
Cedric
Traditionalwriter@yahoo.com
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