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Real Life:
Just a Game of Hoops?
by Jimmy Greene, Age 16
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Basketball has been my second love in life; the first-place award goes to the man upstairs in heaven. I have played all types of sports--basketball, baseball, track, and football--but last year I wanted to focus on basketball. I felt that God wanted me to do this. However, basketball season didn't go as well as I thought it was going to, and I started to lose faith that this was what God really wanted me to do.
When the season ended, the drive to succeed came back. I turned 16, got my license and drove to play with the best players. I was playing all the time and my game was showing improvement. But one night I lay in my bed, doubting and questioning whether playing basketball is one of God's plans for my life. I was scheduled to teach at a sports camp that next day, and I asked God what he had in store for me. Was I supposed to be teaching kids to play when I could be somewhere else? As I prayed, God revealed that the only thing that matters here on earth is serving the Lord and changing other people's lives by telling them about Jesus Christ. I talked to God and asked him to use me to change as many lives as I could in the camp the next day.
I may not be the tallest basketball player in the world or be the best one in town, but the kids at the camp looked up to me. They thought that I was this amazing basketball player. I was able to impact their lives without being a multi-million dollar athlete interviewed on ESPN. By the end of the week, a lot of the kids came up to me and the other student coaches and asked for our autographs.
Playing basketball allowed me to impact those kids. God can use you in whatever you do to change the lives of others if you let him.
Above story: Copyright 2002, Jimmy Greene.
Real Teens, Real Faith: Copyright 2001, 2002, Real Teens, Real Faith, T. Suzanne Eller, Dare To Believe. Permission must be granted to reprint any item in any form. Please feel free to send the newsletter in its entirety to your friends. The stories and poems should not be added to a web site without permission of T. Suzanne Eller or the individual author.
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