Live for Him

As athletes, we have a drive for our sports. Sports are fun and we want to work harder so we can become stronger and play at a higher level, win, and experience success. For athletes, it can be very easy to seemingly lose ourselves in our sports; we can end up giving it all of our time, efforts, money, attention, our thoughts, and everything about our daily lives surrendered to our sport.

God reminds us in His word that He gave His one and only Son to give us the life we love and enjoy, including the ability and opportunity to play our sport. Jesus gave His life so that we could have life, and the blessing we have received through that sacrifice is worth sacrificing our lives too. Because God gave us life, He is deserving of dedicating our lives as well. As Christians, we should be living to bring glory to God first before anything else.

When we give God all of our time, efforts, and attention first in our lives, we will have a deeper relationship with the One who has given us the blessing of sports and gift of eternal life with Him.