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By Mallory Mattingly
For Tim and Demi Tebow, their faith is the “foundation of everything.”
“I believe that although I miss the mark a lot, when we do it better, it changes your heart posture, changes your mindset, and it changes the lens in which you see people,” Tim said on an episode of “The Skinny Confidential” podcast. “That we wouldn’t just see people for what they could do for us or what we could do for them. We wouldn’t just see people for what we have in common, but we would see people with the God-given worth and value that we believe every single human was created with — that every single person was really created in the image of God.”
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“And when you really believe that in your heart, your eyes start to change. The lenses in which you see people start to change,” the former NFL player continued.
“Let’s say I dropped a penny and I said, ‘Hey guys, I dropped a penny. I need you guys to help me find this penny.’ Y’all would look at me and be like, ‘You’re an idiot. Who cares? It’s just a penny.’ But if Demi dropped her diamond wedding ring and I said, ‘Hey guys, she dropped her wedding ring. Stop — we’ve got to find it,’ there’s a couple of reasons you would probably stop and help us find it. Why? Because you know that it’s valuable, but you also know that it’s innately valuable to her as her wedding ring,” he said.
He explained that our society often treats people suffering more like pennies than priceless diamond rings when it should be the other way around.
“I think so much of that comes from believing every person is created in the image of God and has innate worth and value and that they are loved by God and God has called us to love them,” Tim emphasized. “And I think one of our hearts is that we would know God’s love, but then we would also, in a very imperfect way, strive to show that love.”
This conviction the Tebows live out echoes what Jesus commanded in Matthew 22:36-40:
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The Tebows certainly do their best to love God and their neighbors. Through the Tim Tebow Foundation, the couple fights for the world’s “Most Vulnerable People” through four focuses: “Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, Orphan Care + Prevention, Profound Medical Needs, and Special Needs Ministry.”
“One of the greatest calls on my life is to fight for people that can’t fight for themselves,” Tim said on Instagram in 2024. “When I was 15 and in the jungles of the Philippines…I met a boy who was born with his feet on backwards. He was a throwaway to his village. But I knew that day he wasn’t a throwaway to God. I probably haven’t done it very well, but I’ve known that I was supposed to fight for boys and girls, men and women, hurting people all around the world that were viewed as less than. Because to God, nobody is.”
Loving others as God commands us isn’t a feeling or an emotion, but rather a choice we make every day. Let’s follow the Tebows’ example and show Christ’s love to those we encounter today.
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