How Do You Handle Challenges??? How to remain faithful through challenges and setbacks
How do you handle setbacks?
Do you allow them to beat you down, or do you remain faithful and enable yourself to triumph, only to realize in hindsight that those seemingly insurmountable setbacks were only enabling you to have a larger platform to make a greater impact in service to those around you?
Today, we're going to look at one of the most powerful books of the Bible in my opinion, and how it can help you to remain resilient and persevere as an athlete and as a coach for Christ.
The Book of Job
Athletes and coaches for Christ, I was recently having a conversation with a friend about the book of Job and how it relates to us as athletes and coaches.
For those of you that need a reminder about the book of Job, it's essentially a book about God allows Satan to do essentially whatever he wants to Job other than kill him, to see whether this man named Job will remain faithful to God or not.
And Job was this very prosperous and successful human being.
He had a giant family, he had a lot of land, he had a lot of livestock, he had a lot of wealth. And essentially, Satan takes all of that from Job.
But rather than being down on himself, Job remains faithful to God through all of it. And God ends up repaying Job many, many more times over, and he became much more successful and prosperous.
And we see similar situations play out in our lives as athletes and coaches.
Athletes
You may feel like you're at the height of your game, but then you suffer a season-ending injury. But how do you continue to persevere and remain resilient through this? How do you continue to remain faithful to your team and pour into your teammates in whatever way you can? As you continue to remain resilient, eventually there will be a day when you realize that God was using that setback to refine you and to help give you a larger platform to make a greater impact to those around you.
Coaches
There have been many stories where coaches are inflicted by either a scandal that is not true, or they have problems with parents. But as you continue to remain resilient, as you continue to persevere through these times, you will realize that God was only using that to refine you and to give you a larger platform to make a greater impact to all of those around you.
Setbacks in Daily Faith
And then athletes and coaches for Christ, in our daily walks of faith, there may be many times that we are inflicted with setbacks. Whether that's loss of loved ones, whether that's ending of relationships, whether that's emotional turmoil, whether that's external events such as natural disasters, which seem to push us down into the depths and into the ground.
As you remain faithful, as you continue to be resilient and continue to persevere, there will be a day when you realize that God was using all of this to continue to refine you, to continue to strengthen your faith, and one day you will have a larger platform to make a greater impact, to serve all of those around you many more times over than you ever could have before.
Athletes and coaches for Christ, I wish you well on your journey of remaining faithful even amidst all of life's setbacks, and I send love, gratitude, peace, and blessings to you!
May GOD inspire YOU every step of your way,
Kyle
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