The Highlight Tape

MY SON Jonathan has a highlight tape. Professional football teams have reviewed these tapes. It shows his greatest blocks, his greatest catches, and his greatest runs. It’s a twenty-four- minute highlight tape showing Jonathan at his best.

Now, this tape is made from extracted plays taken from all the tapes of his games. One year, when playing against Texas Tech, he was handed the ball, got hit, and he fumbled.

That’s not on the highlight tape. During another game, he was on the punt team. He was one of the first ones down to the other end of the field to get the receiver, but the receiver did one of those quick moves and danced around him.

That is not on the highlight tape either. The only things on the highlight tape are the highlights—the things he’s proud of and the things he’s excited about. He doesn’t show everything. He did get calls from a few pro football teams who have watched his highlight tape and liked what they saw.

Because of the tape, they planned to watch him during his senior season. They saw enough on the highlight tape to let them know that even if Jonathan was lacking some skills in an area, he was more than talented and skilled enough to make up for those things. They knew this because of the tape. There were enough highlights to overrule whatever flaws may have been there.

One day we will all go before God and He’s going to show our whole tape. However, He will also extract some highlights.

The highlights will be the times where we showed love. Where we have shown love during our lives, those moments will make it onto the highlight tapes. The question is, will there be enough highlights on your love highlight tape to cancel out all the fumbles, missed blocks, flaws, sins, failures, compromises, evil thoughts, and evil deeds you’ve had in your life? God wants us to know that if we have a highlight tape, a tape full of love, we can have confidence in the day of judgment.