THE LIFETIME CONTRACT

[Memories on December 9, 2015 at 6:28pm]

Yesterday, December 08, I was green with envy once again upon learning about Lebron James’ lifetime contract with the giant shoe company Nike, a deal in sports that has yet to be a norm. Nike has gone a long, long way since the first time I saw its Swoosh logo on the sneakers worn by the one and only Billy Ray Bates, the electrifying PBA import who took the country by storm.

Bates wore it in 1983,—the year Ninoy was assassinated—many years ahead of the time the great Michael Jordan did. I almost thought Nike was the reason the Crispa import would slam like a crazy kid while soaring high at top speed.

I can feel that not quite a few are likewise drooling over that lifetime contract since it’s the first of its sort, hence, understandably it boggles the mind of every athlete on Earth’s every cranny and nook. You imagine a senile Lebron James in bed who, in his too advanced age and severe arthritis, would often puke, but that Nike contract would compel him to recite their old motto on TV: “Take a walk.”

Now, does Nike really believe that by that time when everyone and everything would change, the current generation by then of basketball enthusiasts would still believe Lebron James? Nothing lasts a lifetime except life itself and even if one is at one time in his basketball life he would reign supreme, when it comes to facts as the truth sets in, I’m sure he never feigns.

In this world, neither human entity nor human endeavor could truly guarantee a lifetime deal with a human soul. Somewhere along the way as time goes by, things will change and more often they’re beyond anyone’s control.

Take for example those pathetic companies of liars disguising as pre-need/insurance giants like the old braggart CAP Plan, to mention one. Yesterday, CAP proudly declared to the whole nation it was unsinkable like Titanic for it had billions of “guaranteed untouchable deposit” called Equity Fund.

Now, where that blood-sucking company went? Roll your eyeballs, open your eyelids, and look what happened. CAP, like Humpty Dumpty, had a great fall and all the kings’ horses and men couldn’t put it back together again. When I heard about its bankruptcy for the first time then, I remembered the prophecy: “Babylon the great is fallen” (Revelation 18:2).

There’s only One absolute Being that can doubtless give us a lifetime guaranteed contract in the true sense of the word. It’s He Who never tell a lie unlike the fooling CAP of old, as had been shown by His Only Son also known as The Word.

“And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people” are His words in Leviticus 26:12 guaranteeing. But like all other contracts, a condition He is setting: “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them” (v. 2).