Friend and funny-man Shelby Abbott has a sweet ministry that primarily uses humor as a tool to point to the Gospel. He is not only funny though, when he branches into serious stuff he’s no slouch there either.
This week he reflected on the Olympics and how we find our worth and value.
I caught a short interview with downhill skier, Lindsay Vonn before the Olympics started this year, and she casually said something that made me pause and think more deeply about where our significance comes from and what I really believe success is in light of my view of God. In the midst of answering a few questions from an NBC reporter, she said, “who am I if I’m not a skier?”
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The Olympics have opened my eyes to how much value we place on performance. Notice I said we. I am 100% guilty of validating my life based upon how good I’ve performed in a given situation. But after connecting with the truth that God accepts me for who I am (a [wretched] sinner, saved by the perfection of Jesus Christ alone), my performance barometer begins to loose its effect when I think about what kind of person I am.
He’s so right. It doesn’t matter what we find our significance in: good work, being a skier, a father, a husband, a wife, a minister, a missionary – they all fall short. If our value is based in anything but the ultimate, in anything but the love and value of God then we are placing value in things that are (in the end) of no value next to the invaluable glory of God and his salvation!
Check out the rest of Shelby’s site at: ShelbyAbbott.com (we both have the same creative streak in naming our sites).
