Saints QB Praises God After Week One Win
By Movieguide® Contributor
After leading his team to the biggest win of the NFL opening weekend, Saints QB Derek Carr praised the Lord for allowing him to have such a fun opening game.
“I’ve been praying for these days,” Carr told the media after the game. “This is awesome.”
He ended Sunday’s game with an 83% pass completion rate and over 200 total yards. These were not the type of numbers he began last season with as he transitioned into the Saints’ program.
Last season was a rough one for Carr as he struggled to find success with his new team. Halfway through the year, he was benched because he wasn’t providing the talent he needed to. While he was disappointed, the athlete was able to remain hopeful because of his faith.
“Everybody was asking me, ‘How are you doing?’… and I’m doing great, and I’m gonna tell you why…” Carr told Christian Headlines last year. “I’m doing great walking with Jesus. He has been speaking so loud to me. It’s been so clear to me. That doesn’t mean that it has felt easy. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t woken up and felt angry at times. That doesn’t mean I haven’t woken up and felt a little upset at times, sad at times. Dang, I really wish I could have done more. I really wish that I could have helped more or I could have done better.”
“I came up short. But does that mean that I come up short with who God sees me as? Does that mean that because you didn’t accomplish your goal, you’re not a son or a daughter of the Most High?…” he added. “No, because I know that there’s a God in heaven that sees me in a new light. There’s a God in heaven that doesn’t put these cultural lenses on me. He sees me for everything He created me to be. He sees you for everything … that He created you to be. Just because we come up short does not determine our worth.”
Having gone through the crucible, it is encouraging to see Carr play with a new light and be able to find success in his second season with New Orleans. Hopefully, he will continue to find success so he can keep pointing the spotlight on God and the way He has provided for Carr.
Movieguide® previously reported:
New Orleans Saints quarterback and four-time Pro Bowler Derek Carr reflected on the importance of seeking God and not chasing the things of this world.
“I’ve seen teammates baptized in my hands. I’ve seen grown men cry in my hands and on my shoulder. I’ve seen all of these things,” he said in a video posted by Christhlete. “These guys have everything the world can offer them, and they sit there, and they weep to me because it’s not enough.”
“You can keep chasing your dream, you can keep chasing your job, the money, the fame, you can chase it all you want, but without the blood of Christ inside of you, it is all nothing,” he explained.
Carr referenced Mark 8:36-37, which reads, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
The quarterback lives by example, declaring that God “is the reason I play football.”
