By Mallory Mattingly
Heisman trophy winner, author, SEC college football analyst and speaker Tim Tebow knows life is about so much more than his athletic achievements.
“I think one of the most disappointing things in my life is that my greatest form of suffering has been for a game,” he admitted in a video posted by More Than Athletes.
“Like, tell me days when you want to be a good athlete or a better athlete, that you do something you don’t want to do,” he continued. “You wake up. You don’t want to wake up. You go train, and you go a little bit harder and a little bit further and a little bit tougher with a little bit more determination, just so I could be a little bit better at this thing.”
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“And then when you think about it, it’s just a stupid game,” the former quarterback continued. “And yes, I know we love it, but it’s literally taking a fake pig skin and putting it inside a rectangle, inside another rectangle, and you’re like, I’m willing to suffer so much for this. But yet we’re so rarely willing to suffer for eternal things. And if my life ends and my greatest form of suffering was to make a team or score a touchdown, I have missed the mark.”
Tebow’s focus on eternity leads him to fight for the end of child trafficking, among other causes, through his foundation.
“The Tim Tebow Foundation is rallying bipartisan support to champion the Renewed Hope Act of 2024. A bill that will help identify and locate the more than 50,000 unidentified children seen in images who are being abused, raped, and tortured,” the Tim Tebow Foundation website reads. “Their images are sitting in a global database, and these children are waiting, hoping, and praying that someone will identify them. There’s no time to wait; the time to take action is now.”
“Our fight is about every single one of those boys and girls who are needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need,” Tebow shared on Instagram last year.
“I believe the ‘Renewed Hope Act of 2024’ to combat child sexual exploitation is going to do just that: give hope to kids, to protect them, to love them, and to show them Faith, Hope, and Love in their darkest hour of need,” he added.
Tebow knows that “suffering” for a football game is nothing compared to what Christ suffered on the cross and calls us to do for His name’s sake.
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