23/05/2026
I’m not a fan of football. Literally me Doreen, I don’t know anything about it.
To the extent that when two teams are on the pitch, the team that scores is the one I applaud.
But a few weeks ago, I saw Arsenal fans celebrating and jubilating like their lives had shifted. After years of waiting, they were saying, “God has finally remembered us. We’ve won the Premier League.”
And it made me stop and think.
These are people who have waited, sacrificed, and been patient for years. Most of them have never met a single player. The team doesn’t know their names. They’ll never be recognized by Arsenal in any official way. Yet they support with everything they have. Some even invest financially, traveling, buying jerseys, giving their time and money to something they don’t personally know.
Now compare that to us as children of God.
You are known by heaven.
Your name is written on the palms of the Lord’s hands.
The God of the universe calls you His child, and He knows you personally.
Yet the moment you pray and don’t get an answer on your timeline, what do we do?
We complain. We start making plans to walk away. We don’t stop there we even utter accusations: “God isn’t real. God has forgotten me. God doesn’t care.”
How quickly our zeal fades when God doesn’t move how we expect.
So I have to ask you, and myself:
How zealous are you to love God with all your heart, no matter what?
The Arsenal fan waits years for a trophy that can’t save them, for a team that doesn’t know them, and they do it without complaint.
Why then do we, who are loved by the King of kings, grow bitter after a few weeks of silence?
Love that only shows up when God answers quickly isn’t love. It’s transaction.
Real love stays when it’s hard. Real love trusts when it doesn’t understand. Real love says, “Even if You don’t answer now, I will not let go of You, because You have never let go of me.”😭
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