The Best Audience In The Universe

December, 1962. Coach Haywood barked, “Hansen, you’re the starting center.”

What? Me? 185 pounds of uncoordinated fat insulating some miniscule muscles.

Now, Danny Copeland had the athletic chops to play college and even professional sports. He was always our starting center.

But playing high school basketball was my passion.

Could this be my day to shine? 

The ref threw the ball up for the tip-off, signaling the start of my time in the limelight. Look out NBA, here I come.

The opposing center easily out-jumped me and the other team scored first. In the ensuing minutes, I was called for a three-second violation and a personal foul. And I missed an easy layup. 

If Coach Haywood had been a foghorn on a pea-soup day, he couldn’t have sounded more dismal to my ears.

“Hansen, that’s all! Copeland, you’re in.”

I’d failed to please myself, my team mates, and the fans. That was to be my last foray into high school basketball.

In your own life journey, you may have—or will have in the future—chances to stand out from the crowd. To be seen, heard, and even admired.

Being a people-pleaser can give you immediate and even long-term gratification. But is that what you truly need, in the deepest parts of you?

 Psalm 19, verse 14:
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.


Years later I finally understood. It’s the thing that eclipses all human praise and applause. . . .

Being a God-pleaser is eternal.

What can you do today—this week—this year—to live with God as your Audience of One?
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