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Choices, Choices, Choices

By Ryan, October 31, 2006

“I’ve thought the best chance for us to be where we wanted to be, contending in the playoffs, was to go with the experienced quarterback in Drew [Bledsoe], and I don’t know if I’ve changed my mind there at all. ... But we have to win games ... We have to give ourselves every opportunity. ... [Playing Tony Romo] was a very bad decision.”
-Jerry Jones
Yeah, and then Tony Romo goes on to perform better than Drew Bledsoe ever did in a Dallas uniform, despite being, in essence, a rookie.

It was a gutsy choice indeed. At the time, the Cowboys were 3-3 and needed a win desperately. Convention tells most coaches to stick with the experience. Bill Parcells made a choice to all but shun conventional behavior and go with the man who had never started a regular season NFL game in his life. It paid off big time, seeing as the Cowboys got their first win over a “good” team* this season.

We, too, have to trust that we can make our own decisions. Too often we get the idea that we can just sit back and relax and let God do everything for us.

Let me just say that if God was going to decide everything for us, we’d essentially be puppets. To further illustrate this, imagine a car, a driver, and a map. In this example, the car represents your life, the driver represents you, and the map represents God. If you get in the car and just look at where the map says to go, the map won’t start driving the car by itself. You have to put the key in the dang ignition, shift the gears, and steer and accelerate when necessary.

God gave us free will. That means that, believe it or not, we actually make our own choices once in a while! Now, don’t get the idea that what Bill Parcells did went against God; I refuse to believe that it did. What I’m saying is that God created us to decide for ourselves what to do with our lives. If we just assume that we can put the car in neutral and let the map drive while we snack on Cheez-Its or something, then we’re insulting our Creator.

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