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You're going to read this and wonder where I'm headed with it. That makes two of us. But that's what makes opportunities to change the conversation to Jesus so interesting. They can (and should) come out of nowhere.

You might not even be a Knicks fan or a basketball fan or a sports fan. But what is happening in this situation might be happening with you. This Knicks situation with Thomas and Brown is hopeless. You can sense the dysfunction. You can sense the desperation. You can sense the frustration, the utter lack of the ability to change the circumstances to something better.

Can you sense that in your own life?

The article says "Thomas made a number of moves before and during this season, and almost none of them worked". None of them worked. Not a single one of their efforts was able to save them.

Can you sense that futility in your own life?

The Bible says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. The Bible says that a man's efforts to save himself are futile. Apart from Him you can do nothing.

Life doesn't have to be an endless series of disappointing years. It doesn't have to be filled with the frustration and the desperation and the futility. Yes, you, you can't do anything. The thing is, you don't need to. Done for you. Done for you on the Cross of Calvary where the Lord Jesus died for your sins.

That empty tomb on Easter? The dawning of a new day for you. A victory, not a loss. A victory over death for all eternity. You can accept the fate of your local sports team, you have to. But you don't have to accept anything about your life. Take that step of faith right now and change your future. Now.