We’re in the fortunate position in that in our small town we’re hosting two of the World Cup Soccer teams namely Denmark and France. These teams couldn’t be anymore different. The French team are very security conscious and have a permanent police presence to their hotel. The Danish don’t. We’re in the lucky position in that we’re currently building a family house for us in the Estate where the hotel of the French is situated.

So to go there during the day requires a stop in the queue of cars at the police barricade, waiting for your turn to get to the front, showing your Estate access card as well as your ID Document. The police then take this and go and check on their systems that you’re allowed access after which you may enter.

Now quite frankly I never thought much of the French team in the first place. I would have ignored them if I saw them. I don’t even know the players. Our son’s school has been teaching them about everything French in the last few weeks so we do now have a bit of knowledge of the French. Still I wasn’t going to support them during the World Cup. Being South African I would have supported our team while they’re in.

Denmark on the other hand is the other team here. They decided to have a public open day yesterday and the day before of their practice matches. They signed flags and shirts for people. I got to see them warm up and practice. They were very relaxed and open to the public.

So where am I going with this, well, the Bible tells us that we should treat people the way we want them to treat us. Maybe this is actually a built in human mechanism.

Here the French came in treating everyone as an enemy and guess what….in return we’ll treat them as the enemy. The Danish came in and treated us like friends, and well I love that team. I’ll admit that I still don’t know who the players are, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I’ll find out now. In future I’ll even follow these players after the World Cup. They’re friends now.

Why didn’t the French just go to a bush camp in the first place where no-one would see them anyway. They’ve come into other peoples homes and treated them as the enemy. So maybe the Bible was right. No-one will treat them as friends but rather as the arrogant individuals that they want to be treated as.

So in conclusion, I’d like to thank the World Cup Soccer for teaching me a valuable lesson. Fundamentally the Bible does work. Thanks Denmark you’re great friends.