Monday Morning Quarterbacking
I’ve discovered a solution to all our challenges in life.
We just need to learn how to live life backwards.
It’s often called Monday morning quarterbacking.
Lots of football fans are very good at it .
On Monday morning, after the big game,
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All of them can tell you the mistakes that were made and the moves that would have won the game
So, what if we all decided to be Monday morning quarterbacks?
Each week we’d start living backwards on Monday.
We could avoid all the mistakes we made because we now know what the consequences are.
We’d only do the things that worked.
Each week, when we got to the beginning of the week,
we would have had a perfect week.
Nobody would be offended by us.
Our finances would prosper from our perfect investments.
We wouldn’t need to complain because everyone would make perfect decisions.
Imagine living in a world that acted justly, displayed loving kindness, and walked humbly before God.
Wonder why no one ever came up with that before?
OK, for that to be true, we would need to look backwards, or at listen to the prophet who paid attention to God’s future.
You wonder if God is an expert in Monday morning quarterbacking?
Maybe that’s why God has all the prophets call us to repent or turn around.