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Worship God in Front of the World - Laura Wilkinson

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I became a follower of Christ when I was really young — about eight years old — but I wandered away in high school. I just got distracted, and I thought I could take the reigns of my life into my own hands.

I made a mess of things and actually realized in the middle of a diving meet that I was hitting rock bottom. My grades were slipping, I lost a lot of people close to me, and I thought diving was all I had left. I began to get disoriented, and this one thing I thought was keeping my life in check was slipping through my fingers.

It was in the middle of a diving meet I realized that I had taken control back. I knew that it was God that I needed to give my life to, and I did that in the middle of the meet. That has made diving more special to me because God used that — something I love so much; something He’s given me a talent for — to bring me back to Him. Now I can use diving to glorify Him. When I dive, I get to worship Him.

That is what the Olympic experience embodies for me — I get to worship God in front of the world, doing what He has made me to do. There’s just no better feeling than that.

—Laura Wilkinson, USA Olympic diver

Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Thomas Park

Worship God in Front of the World - Laura Wilkinson

Aug 29, 2019

I became a follower of Christ when I was really young — about eight years old — but I wandered away in high school. I just got distracted, and I thought I could take the reigns of my life into my own hands. I made a mess of things and actually realized in the middle of a diving meet that I was hitting rock bottom. My grades were slipping, I lost a lot of people close to me, and I thought diving was all I had left. I began to get disoriented, and this one thing I thought was keeping my life in check was slipping through my fingers. It was in the middle of a diving meet I realized that I had taken control back. I knew that it was God that I needed to give my life to, and I did that in the middle of the meet. That has made diving more special to me because God used that — something I love so much; something He’s given me a talent for — to bring me back to Him. Now I can use diving to glorify Him. When I dive, I get to worship Him. That is what the Olympic experience embodies for me — I get to worship God in front of the world, doing what He has made me to do. There’s just no better feeling than that. —Laura Wilkinson, USA Olympic diver