The wrong will fail, the right prevail

The TV show Numbers represented life so well tonight. It was about a mobster who was going to be executed for committing a crime. The show centered on the mobster's determination to die even though at the last minute evidence surfaced that showed that the mobster did not commit the crime, that his son did. The mobster was dying to protect his son, and willingly doing so. As this was going on, a sub-plot was being developed where the star of the show had made calculations for a basketball team who had lost every game for a number years straight. He was trying out his method in a real game. But the team was losing miserably.

The ending scene switched back and forth between the main plot and sub-plot. The basketball team began winning when the coach put pro players into the college game, but no one knew that the players were professional. The main plot showed the mobster being strapped in for lethal injection for a crime he didn't commit and nothing could be done to stop the execution.

Cheating the system worked in the basketball game, which isn't real life, but cheating the system cost an innocent man his life, which he willingly gave, in the real world. A number of conclusions can be drawn. The one obvious to me at first was that what doesn't count turns out all right and what really counts doesn't turn out right at all.

Life is topsy-turvy like that.

(The title is a line from the Casting Crowns song, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" which addresses this dilemma of good and evil in light of the gift of Christmas.)