The Scoreboard Lie
“We base our identity and self-worth on the shallow opinions of scoreboard watchers and on the empty meaning of a number posted… It was an insidious time in life when I began to believe the lie shouting from the scoreboard. In the words of Don McLean’s classic song, ‘It was the day the music died.’ A score was a goal, not the definition of a person’s self worth. ”
Commentary:
I remember being picked first one day as a kid in a sandlot pickup game. It was a glorious day because being picked down the line came with internal ridicule. But it was also the day that my self-worth became hitched to outcome and the treadmill never ended. It was exhausting until the Lord revealed a different scoreboard one day. It is the reason that I wrote the book and movie, Seven Days in Utopia. I wrote it to help unlock the prison door for us all.
“… For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7
