FCA Perseverance- Through your sport 1/29/07
Here’s what Shaun Alexander, last year’s NFL MVP, has to say about practice and perseverance:
“You’re never gonna be perfect,” says Shaun. “But you're always gunning for it. You’re usually tired of going through this battle, and that’s when you gotta go back and depend on God. You’ll have a bad play, and then the next thing you know you make the greatest play that anyone’s ever seen. You’re always in that fatigue where you’re crying out for a little bit more. ‘God, give me a little bit more strength.’ That's kind of how it is in football and in Christ."
No matter how famous he becomes or how wealthy he gets, for Shaun Alexander, it all comes down to one thing.
“[There] is only one way to do it, and that’s the way the Bible says it,” Shaun says. “That’s the way Jesus Christ showed it and lived it, and that’s it."
Read Romans 5:3-4 and Hebrews 10:35-36
Read Genesis 6:9-22
Something to think about:
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.