Learn fast but trust slow

We’re not just in October anymore—we’re in the playoffs. One week, one opponent, win or go home. The stage is brighter, the hits are harder, the margin for error is thinner. In moments like this, the principle that has carried us all season becomes even more critical: Learn fast, but trust slow.

Learn Fast

We’ve got hours of film on this next opponent. New tendencies, their offensive plays, new wrinkles they’ve saved for November. Absorb it all. Ask questions in meetings, lock in on the scout team, walk through it a hundred times until your feet know it better than your mind. In the playoffs, the team that adjusts quickest usually advances. We will out-learn them this week.

But trust slow?

That part doesn’t speed up just because the calendar says playoffs. The trust we’re leaning on Friday night isn’t built in a film room this week—it was built back in the August Texas heat when nobody was watching, in off season conditioning when legs screamed, in that gut-check fourth quarter comeback earlier this season when we chose to fight for each other instead of folding to a 45 mercy rule.

That trust has been growing slowly, rep by rep, sprint by sprint, prayer by prayer. Now, in the playoffs, we get to cash it in. When the crowd is deafening and the score is tight, you won’t have time to second-guess the guy next to you. You’ll either trust him or you won’t. And because we trusted slow—because we earned it the hard way—we get to play fast and free now.

Trusting in the Lord

Proverbs 3:5-6 still says the same thing it said in August: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

This means giving God your full confidence—not just part of it—and refusing to make your own logic, feelings, or experience the final authority. We can learn fast through, scripture shorts on Tik Tok or YouTube but we must trust the Lord to make it impactful in our lives. When every decision, big or small, is submitted to God, He promises to guide you clearly and remove obstacles, leading you on the best path.

The path has led us here—to the playoffs, to this moment. Keep learning fast this week. Keep trusting deep because we built it slow. Similarly, don’t trust yourself to figure life out; trust God completely, keep Him in everything you do, and He’ll lead you exactly where you need to go.