If I were to tell the University of Virginia Men’s Basketball team were going to win March Madness RIGHT AFTER their devastating loss to 16 seed UMBC… You would call me insane!

Well, whoever flippantly said it as a joke, or was actually predicting it or maybe even betting on those odds. Well let’s just say someone’s joke became reality and someone’s bet made them some cha ching!

However, even in defeat the head coach of the UVA Men’s Basketball game didn’t chew out his team. No, he did just the opposite! He encouraged them!

Fittingly enough he played the song by Tauren Wells: Hills and Valleys. Which essentially talks about in sports terms how in life we experience defeats (the hills) and the victories (the valleys).

I just wrote a song about my personal testimony and there is a section/chorus of it that goes like this:

Isn’t it funny?… How God works this way?… Waiting for the buzzer beater… TO TAKE THE LAST SHOT AND WIN YOUR SOUL’S GAME!!!

See the analogy? Because honestly even though we are not talking about souls being saved necessarily in this case, the idea still applies Jesus will always come through in the clutch, but I believe we need to be CONTENT even in the losses.

Pastor Josiah Graves just taught recently at the Exchange church of how he lost his dream job right after he got his dream job! I can relate to this at least four different times in my life.

I interned at Fox Sports didn’t get hired, interned at a local newspaper didn’t get hired, interned at ESPN West Palm and yes you guessed it… No hiring here.

Finally, last year I got hired with the new MLS Soccer team Inter Miami CF. Enter Covid-19. The week of the first game we had an event for season ticket holders only.

The experience was amazing! Even though it was remarkably like another job I had with another South Florida Sports team, it was like night and day!

There was a really cool band that went by our section, I saw someone I knew from my former church, all the managers that looked over our position were amazing… I could go on and on!

Well unfortunately Covid-19 impacted so many lives. Anywhere from losing a job, loved one, or their own life. For me I lost my boss to layoffs and the whole 2020 season was gone let alone one game that I only was at until half time.

Fast forward to 2021 I find The Exchange and like Pastor Josiah, I lost my job. At first, I wasn’t terribly angry about it. Then reality set in. What I thought could have become a dream job was gone. Livid is a nice word for how I felt.

Being a sports nut, working in the sports industry has always been a dream of mine. To think that something like Covid-19 something that hasn’t happened for multiple lifetimes let alone mine was beyond maddening, frustrating and beyond comprehension.

If you look at the life of Paul, the guy went through it. Sickness, imprisonment, shipwrecks, coming to dying often… But the guy was a little word we call CONTENT. Because amid calamity, chaos and confusion, I have found that maybe not during it, but through its Christ will always come through.

Through all of my struggles in life I have found that Christ always Comes through in the end. However, even though he is willing and WANTS to save us of course. I believe where we find the most comfort even in the chaos is being CONTENT in Christ despite what our circumstances might look like good or bad.

Do not take this as me saying, “Look at me, thou art holy,” But guys I am single, jobless, basically broke, just getting used to an old medicine after getting off one that was beyond awful, and I am CONTENT! Because like the UVA Basketball team, the head coach did not know the result…

What he knew was how to be CONTENT not in just the victory a year later, but the year prior as well. As they were not just the 1 seed but the number 1 OVERALL seed to lose to a 16 seed even before they won the whole thing! Guys we don’t know the outcome, only Jesus does. In this I put my hope, I know that He is faithful, forgiving, and a forever friend of everyone who claims HIM and even for those who don’t know HIM, HE LOVES!!!

Because at the end of the day, if we aren’t CONTENT with CHRIST. How will we be CONTENT in our career, in our marriages, etc.? Don’t get me wrong while all those things are GREAT, CHRIST IS GREATER AND HE IS THE GREATEST of ALL!!!

Ask yourself today are you CONTENT in CHRIST? Because while he will ALWAYS COMETHROUGH for you, being CONTENT in the journey while growing in CHRIST is what will bring comfort in the face of calamity and chaos or whatever circumstance you might find yourself to be in…

God bless,

Zach Evans

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