By Mallory Mattingly
Sports broadcaster Dan Orlovsky wants to keep growing in his faith, and often, that looks like recognizing how his flaws separate him from God.
“It’s not just about forgiveness, like…Yes, it is about forgiveness, yes, but it’s not just about forgiveness. It’s about when we’re constantly living in this mode of sin. We’re not right with God. That’s not the most perfect life that God has planned for us,” Orlovsky began to share in an episode of the “Sports Spectrum” podcast. “We are not vertically right with God. So if we’re not vertically right, then we can ever be horizontally right with our wife, our friends, our kids, our peers, all that.”
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“And so you know, some of the things that we can do — I think that’s probably all up in the air for a lot of people, you know — for me, Matt, it’s certainly spending time with God daily,” he continued. “I think one of the things that has been a big deal for me is trying to pay more attention to when things on a daily basis are happening.”
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“Out of the blue, why did I just get so angry? I just got angry because the peanut butter jar wasn’t tight…you know. Is there a sin in my life in the last day that really has fractured my soul, my spirit?” he shared as an example.
“So moments of that — trying to be, like, a little bit more present, like, ‘Okay, where am I wrong with God right now?’ And then, you know, trying to get ahead of things too, man, like, you know, I get made fun for it a lot, but like, you gotta know where you’re weak. You gotta know where you’re flawed. And you can’t run from that like you you can’t sweep it under the rug. You can’t allow Jesus’s wind to cover everything, you know, and so we’re all weak in different areas,” Orlovsky emphasized.
Orlovksy, who played as a quarterback in the NFL from 2005 to 2014, extended his broadcasting contract with ESPN last summer.
He also uses his platform to share how parents can encourage their young athletes without burning them out.
He previously advised parents to “always assume the best in your kid. There’s going to be enough people in their life that tell them things they’re not good at. Make an effort to understand how important the things you say to your kids are. Your kids will become in many ways the words that you speak through them.”
Orlovsky’s commitment to spending time in the Bible and recognizing his weaknesses reminds us just how much our sin separates us from God and how great His forgiveness is.
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