Perspectives!
"Lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven."
Matthew 6: 20
After being drafted by Indianapolis, NFL quarterback
Sam Ehlinger was asked how he felt preparing for
possibly starting in an NFL game.
He replied, “Just the perspective that I’ve been able to gain
through adversity, through life, things in my life, it’s really
put into perspective what we’re on this earth to do.” He
was thinking of the deaths of his father and
brother.
Ehlinger, a Christian, said that football is just a game.
“And as much as everybody here loves it, and as much
money that flows in the business and things that happen
like that, at the end of the day it is just a sport.”
He said he didn’t want to make football his life or death.
And afterward, he tweeted a picture of Matthew 6:19-21—
underlined in his Bible and bearing this caption: “We will
spend a short amount of time here compared to eternity!”
While things of this world are passing away, we’re promised
eternal life. We mustn’t place our trust in the world. God uses
adversity to help us keep our perspective on what we’re on
earth to do. Let’s keep our eyes on eternity!
"I’ve always kind of viewed the locker room as my
mission field. Wherever God calls you, that’s where
God calls you to be a missionary."
NFL Quarterback Ryan Tannehill
