Mini-post Sunday - Snowboard Competition

Around a month ago I went to Ski Sawmill's slope style competition they have held yearly for a few years. This was my third year competing in the competition and I all the years before I never got into the top three. I knew I was better than last year, but so would everyone else.

This year I have grown a fair amount and I have been learning to try and give God the credit for things. When I think about it, who is the one who gave me the passion and desire to get better at snowboarding? God. Who has allowed me to be able to improve my skills? God. Ultimately God could either put me on top of the podium or at the bottom and off the chart.

If God is the one who is controlling my life, He is then the one who should get and deserves all the credit. As a result, instead of trying to win the competition to prove my abilities and hopefully gain status as a snowboarder, I tried to give glory to God through the competition. Even though I was unsure of how to glorify God while snowboarding, I prayed that God would somehow show me how to do just that.

I ended up getting third place, not that was anything really great, but it did give me a lot to work with. Instead of trying to take the credit for myself and saying that I was good. I could instead try and give all the credit to God.

Who are you giving credit to and glorifying? Yourself, or do you realize how God profoundly deserves all the credit and glory?