3. God's Path

Why do I want to wrestle? I think is just because obviously I have a love and a passion for the sport, but I feel like, God's kind of giving me this role and opportunity to to do this in my life. And I thank him every single day for this opportunity. I just feel the path that I've went is something that's paved by God. And I just feel like, something that he chose me to do because I feel like I was born to do it, to be honest. I like doing that stuff. I like the challenge, and there are days that I don't want to train, but in general, I love doing it and I have a passion for it. When I get into the wrestling room, this is like getting into- going into the lab, you know, like a scientist. I just kind of get on track on what I'm supposed to do. I think things I've learned from my dad that surpass the sport. I think just like the character of a person that I am, you know, I think, being a person that is respectable and someone that, I don't want to say just like a good person but- He's personable. He's able to be humble in his wins and losses. We understand that wrestling is just a sport. At the end of the day, It doesn't define you as a person just because that, you're just some great wrestler. I think it's really important to understand that, the adversities we have to overcome on the mat help overcome adversities in life. I would say the good news about Jesus is that, he's always there for you. He's seeking you at all times. And sometimes I feel like, you forget about Him or you aren't there, He still unconditionally loves you. I'm always someone who feels like I have to be actively doing, and if I'm not, It's like, makes me feel bad about myself, but it's like, I have to know that, Jesus is there for me whether I'm looking or not, whether things are going good or things are going bad. He’s never going to forsake us. Trying to learn from Jesus's life, where you know, he sacrificed himself, and his life, to erase our sin. And having that, humility I think that maybe he's one of the things that I look at the most. It’s something that the way that he did, it was not something where he brought a lot of attention to himself, but ended up reaching everybody. And it's crazy how he was almost able to, inspire people and get into people's hearts that way without having some great, magnificent show. As much as I do try to take the stage and platform and put on a show with my performance and my own technique and my own skill, and want to display the best kind of wrestling, because that's the kind of wrestler I am. When I, get off the mat, I try to just, show what kind of a good person I am through Christ, and the kind of person God's made me. to show like that's he's a man of God. And that's kind of how I want to be able to get into their hearts that way. And people become Stevan Mićić fans that way.