Life is purely about feeling peace and joy. Sports can be great for teamwork, but at the end of the day, sports pretty much only brings about:
- Pride.
- Envy and jealousy.
- Greed.
- Lust.
- Depression.
- Mental and physical pain.
- Evil speaking from others.
All things making life not worth living.
Life is purely about feeling peace and joy. Sports only brings about two kinds of fleeting feelings of joy:
- The worldly joy of the feeling of winning: This joy is worldly, and not of God, in the sense of, “I won because I’m better than you.” For what other joy is there in winning besides feeling better than someone else? – meditate deeply on this. When we know that the truth according to God is that we’re not better than anyone for any reason. We’re merely “exalted” based on our humility (do we keep a lowly option of ourselves [not better than anyone] despite our worldly successes?), our love for God and walking in His ways, and our love for strangers and serving them. The world ranks people as better or worse than the next based on physical sports talent. God values the heart – the inner man – their humility, love for God, and love for strangers.
The joy of witnessing what God created the human body & mind to be able to do: throwing a perfect ball. An amazing catch. This type of joy is independent of loyalty to any specific player or team, and simply enjoys watching the physical and mental talent of any human’s capabilities the way God designed us and programmed us. This type of joy doesn’t lift up and glorify the person for their talents, it all traces back to God and glorifies Him for his wisdom and intelligence for how He designed the human body.