"It matters a great deal who is going to win, but not at all who won"
Stability
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever" Hebrews 13:8
The cliché "You are only as good as your last game" sums up brilliantly the transitory nature of sport. As a player you can be the best player one week and on the bench the next. If you are on the staff of a club, a change of management can leave you without a job.
A professional golfer once told us that she was anxious at the beginning of each season to see if she could play as well as last year. In sport you can take nothing for granted.
In the world of sport the values by which you will be judged are performance-based. That is just how it is. You have to accept it to be part of that world. The great encouragement is that our identity is in Christ, who loved us just as much when we lose as when we win. In a world where everything can change overnight, the solid rock is "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday today and forever".
One person who understood that is former US Master golfer, Larry Mize. "If my job or my performance is what makes me significant then my life will be like a roller-coaster. If I play well, I'm happy. If I play bad, I'll be upset and I won't be happy until I play good again. I don't want to live like that and thankfully I don't have to. I have infinite worth because God sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for me. Isn't that truly significant?" (Links Letter Leaflet.)