I stayed up late one night watching MMA videos on youtube. The more I watched the more I found I could tell who was going to win just by looking into their eyes. I could see the fear while their opponent would come in hard with fists, knees, and kicks a-blazing. The fights I saw were over in moments. The difference in size and muscle didn’t seem to matter, it all came down to form and timing. One punch or roundhouse kick squarely landed and it was over.

I watched some act tough before the fight, even I know that’s easily done, and then I saw them get knocked out before the first minute. I was most amazed at how quick every thing was when one came in ready to fight and the other just made it to the ring in time. I watched reigning champions get felled by newbies and I thought about all the training involved. All that confidence and pride didn’t help one bit. They were illusions, mental games played with disastrous results.

As I watched match after match, I couldn’t get Hebrews chapter 1 out of my head. That beginning chapter, more than almost any other first chapter in the New Testament comes out blazing hit after hit. In fact, the kick/punch combos don’t even slow down till the beginning of the 2nd chapter. Are there any still standing? No one. So I dubbed it the MMA chapter of the New Testament.

Each verse is an uppercut followed by an elbow then a knee kick to the face over and over again. You can almost watch the devil get blinded by the first shot, then in comes the next one, and the next one. The devil has no defense, he knows he killed most of the prophets, but now it’s the Son, the resurrected Son. The ground n’ pound has just begun. The chapter is relentless, no referee is in sight. The chapter goes back to the beginning, even the heavens and earth will perish, but the Lord remains. Where is the place for the enemies of the Lord? A footstool! They are beat into the ground and their bodies are left to prop up His feet.

By the time this chapter is finished, my mind is blown away by how completely the enemies of the Son are defeated. I know I wouldn’t want to face off against Him. Maybe we are here for 80 years, but the Lord? Before the beginning of time till after it ends, He is, and He reigns supreme.

Amen Lord, amen.