Terrell Owens and the Cross of Jesus

I was watching Dallas Cowboys' receiver Terrell Owens fielding reporters' questions today. As is usually the case, he was not responsible for his team's loss to the Redskins. According to the most selfish wide receiver in football, the Cowboy's needed to throw the ball to him more. It was thrown his way 17 times yesterday, and he ended up with only 7 receptions. He needed more touches.

The funny thing was that he "touched" the ball more than 7 times. Since this interview wasn't live, ESPN juxtaposed video of several of his dropped passes. Passes that normal wide receivers are supposed to catch. So while he was blaming the coaches for not giving him the ball more, they simply looped "highlights" (at least they were for me!) of him dropping simple passes. His mistakes. He looked ridiculously ignorant of his own stuff.

It reminds me of how prone we all are to ignore our own problems, our sins, our own junk that we "bring to the ball club." If only we had a "highlight" reel to see our own "dropped passes" in life, in our relationships, in our churches, we might blame, criticize, complain and hold grudges far less. But since we don't have that technology just yet, we need to take a better look at the cross. For when we look upon the cross, we see the price Jesus paid for our sins. And He did so, that we would be mindful not to make others pay their debt to us (Matt 18:33).