"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play…it is war minus the shooting."
Fame
This is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. John 17:3In the 1960s Andy Warhol said “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Sport can make you famous – hopefully for more than 15 minutes - but ultimately whatever you are champion of or whatever records you hold, will pass to someone else. Only Jesus can offer you something which lasts forever.
The definition of “eternal life” is very striking – knowing God through Jesus. How do you know if you have eternal life? Ask yourself: “Do I know God?”
In a sense compared to knowing God, sport (and everything else in life) can seem unimportant. But that would be a false assumption. Of course, for people who know God, sport is kept in perspective; winning and losing is not the ultimate.
But sport is the arena in which we have been called to live out our Christian faith. We are to use our gifts for his glory as an act of worship. We are to win and lose with grace and humility. But we are to compete with all our heart, “as unto the Lord”.
So when you next compete, do it as using your God-given gifts, straining to get everything you can out of them. But at the same time compete as a person who knows they have eternal life.
And remember that people who know God never meet for the last time.