"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play…it is war minus the shooting."
Finding meaning
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27The world of sport in the UK has been shocked this week by the suicide of a football manger at the age of 42. Ironically in the same week the Sports Book of the year was won by “A life too short”, the story of the suicide of the German goalkeeper, Robert Enke.
The newspapers have been full of reflections as everyone sought to understand what was happening. One newspaper wrote: "Fame, money, glory and the other superficialities so prized by modern society do not inoculate a person from the deeper more complex and more troubling facets of life".
Nor do "Fame, money, glory and the other superficialities" give meaning to life and significance to a person. Understanding that your worth and significance depends on who you are as a unique person created by God for a relationship with him, frees the individual from the quest to find that significance in owning the most toys or in the rollercoaster of sporting achievement.
It is only as we recognize that the source of our worth is in the fact that God created us in his own image and that Jesus died to redeem us, that we can find a foundation on which to build our lives with the assurance that Jesus can lead us through the ups and downs of life to life everlasting.