Does God Care About the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl was played last Sunday.  It was an exciting game, if you care about football.  A lot of people do care, of course, and some of them care a lot.  But there are others who don’t care at all.  And that raises the question:  Does God care about the Super Bowl?

My answer is yes, but let me explain it.  I’m not suggesting God caused New England to win the game.  I’m not suggesting God is in heaven rooting for one of the teams.  And God might well think that we waste too much time and too much money on the Super Bowl, and on many other things, time and money that could be much better spent in serving God.

But I still believe God cares about the Super Bowl, and here’s why.  God cares about the Super Bowl because God loves us.

When you love someone, the things that are important to them become important to you, right?  The things they care about become the things you care about.  And there is a large number of human beings who care about the Super Bowl.  There is a large number of human beings to whom the Super Bowl is important.  And because God loves us, the things that are important to us become important to God.  The things we care about become things God cares about.

And because God loves us as individuals, it does not take a large number of people being interested in something for God to be interested in that something.  In fact, it only takes one.  To put it another way, it only takes you.  If you are interested in something, God is interested in it, because God loves you.  If you care about something, God cares about it, because God loves you.

And what that means is that if there is something on your mind, something bothering you, God cares about that.  Even if you think it’s a small thing.  Even if you think it’s a silly thing.  Even if you think it’s something that shouldn’t bother you.  If it bothers you, God cares about that.  And God wants to help you.  And so, you can go to God with that thing, no matter what it is.  You can pray to God about that thing, no matter what it is.

We often say that there’s nothing too big for God to handle.  That’s true, but there’s another side to it.  There’s also nothing too small for God to handle.  There’s nothing too small for God to be interested in.  There’s nothing too small for God to care about.  There’s nothing too silly for God to care about.  After all, God is the God of everything.  The big, the small, and everything in-between.

You and I can go to God with everything.  No matter how big, and no matter how small.  So whatever it is that may be troubling you, whatever it is that may be on your mind--big, small, or in-between--go to God with it in prayer.  God will be interested.  God will care.  God loves you.