Inch By Inch

In the film Any Given Sunday (directed by Oliver Stone, Warner Bros., 1999), a down-on-his-luck coach gives one of the best motivational speeches in any movie. It’s halftime, and he addresses his team that is losing. The moral of his story is that the team will win the game inch by inch. It isn’t the big plays that matter; it’s their decisions about how to handle the little things that will make the difference. We establish our identity through the little choices we make every day. The best step forward for building an identity in Jesus is to choose to follow him, even in the little things.