When scheduling their homecoming games, most football teams don’t schedule their fiercest rival or the league’s most dominant team. Instead, they want a “lesser” team to go up against, so that they can get an “easy win” and leave feeling like they can conquer the world.
As Christians, it’s a little different. We don’t have any “homecoming” games, for our home field is in heaven (Phi. 3:20). So, all of our games are “away games,” where we are on the visiting team (cf. 1 Pet. 2:11) and playing in enemy territory (cf. Matt. 13:39). So, does that mean we don’t have any “easy wins” and that we are the “lesser” team and the opposing team is more dominant? Nope, not at all!
As Christians, we are always up against the same ferocious team (our fiercest rival), but we may we never forget that there is only one winning team. “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world…For whatever is born of God overcomes the world” (1 John 4:4; 5:4).