Jump The Route

With experience or just a sense of things, the defender senses the next few steps,  sees the glance of the quarterbacks eyes,  takes the forceful steps and jumps the route, intercepts the pass and heads off to change the Game.

The sport does not matter, I was instructed
to jump the route in basketball as well as football.

I was fortunate to see, sense and then jump the route several times in both sports.

I want to be found to have jumped the route in a few peoples lives.

It’s anticipation.
It’s having sight to see .
It’s experience.

We are in football season so football is the seasonal sport…and we are watching passes being intercepted and routes jumped.

 

Do you see tendencies in anyone’s life right now?
Tendencies leading them in the wrong way?

Do you sense anyone you know leaning the wrong way or looking too much in a direction which will lead them astray?

It’s about anticipation.
It’s about experience.
It’s having sight to see.

If you see or anticipate a leaning or misdirected steps in a life close to you…. Jump the route.

Insert yourself.

Get in the way.

Intercept and lead them to switch direction.

If you saw a defender wearing the jersey you care about …
In position to jump a route and change possession ..,
If you saw them in the position to switch the field….
and they didn’t do it…
you would yell at the television or rise out of your seat and scream.

Jump the route.

Switch the field.

Don’t be nice and stay away…
interject yourself to change the direction.

Dig in with your spiritual cleats …
Watch the tendencies of those around you, placed in your domain by the Author of the Game…
and be ready to jump the route leading them astray.

It’s the act of a shepherd.

It’s the heart of a Father.

It’s the care of a friend.

If you wait too long the opportunity is missed and the route will be on its wrong way.

We have to be willing to look bad…
We have to be willing to get beat….. as any good defender knows.

Yet…
those in our coverage area require
our attention,
our anticipation,
our experience and
our willingness to
jump the route we see and switch the momentum in their lives.

Jump the route.

Terry
October 2015