“I listen to [Christian music] just to remind myself why I’m playing the game, and to remind myself I’m playing to glorify God. I just really try to focus on that.” -Jeremy Lin
(New York)—In the past couple weeks, Harvard graduate and NBA point guard, Jeremy Lin, has been at or near the top of sports headlines.
While he had some stellar performances during college games, he was un-drafted when it came to playing basketball professionally, though later picked up by the Golden State Warriors. After eventually ending up with the NY Knicks, it wasn’t until he finally was brought in off the bench that his game really began to shine.
The points Lin has been racking up during the last week of games has caused the media buzz around the 23-year-old to inherit an official term: “Linsanity.”
An article in the NY Times, written by Michael Luo, noted just how important Lin is to the Asian-American community as a whole (since he is the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent), but especially for Asian-American Christians. (Photo credit: Richard Perry/The New York Times)
Jeremy Lin was plugged into the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship during his last 2 college years, and it seems to have served him well, as he now emerges from public anonymity into the glaring spotlight of media attention.
Similar to football’s Tim Tebow; Jeremy unashamedly, but very naturally, shares about his faith in Jesus Christ, and how it helps to keep him focused on and off the court.
A YouTube video captured Lin discussing some of his favorite music artists—all of them Christian—and how listening to Hillsong music keeps him from getting too hyped up before a game.
“I listen to them just to remind myself why I’m playing the game, and to remind myself I’m playing to glorify God. I just really try to focus on that,” explained Lin.
In another video testimony, Lin ran down a list of “things that had to have happened” for him to get into the NBA, over which he had no control, but which he recognizes as “God’s fingerprints” all over his life “from top to bottom.”
In the testimony, Lin talks about a difficult time when he was playing with the D-league (prior to him going to the Knicks), and how he struggled to hold onto his faith in the face of disappointments with his performance and playing time. Lin adds that in the end he learned that he had to “give it all up to God” and allow Him to be His focus.
Says Lin, “Playing for great stats and everything is nice, but that satisfaction and happiness is only from game to game; it’s very temporary. …That stuff [and all the perks associated with playing in the NBA] brings temporary happiness, but it doesn’t bring eternal joy.”
Watch that video testimony by CLICKING HERE.
Source: Michael Luo – NY Times
February 17, 2012
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