Tiger Woods has been in the business of shocking the world since he first landed on the golf scene in 1996.
He is arguably the most famous athlete on the planet.
In the last 14 years he has won tournament after tournament, earned more than any golfer in history and has two cute kids after marrying what some say is the most beautiful sports wife in the world.
But in the fall of 2009 the world learned that Tiger was on the loose with a trail of infidelity that was even more shocking than any of his wins. Most of us could not comprehend the depth of the sexual depravity Tiger pursued. As a result, his life was changed forever and a year later he is without his reputation, his wife, his family, most of his endorsements and his ability to succeed on the course.
When he apologized to the world months later, Tiger stood in front of the world and proclaimed he had lost his way and that he was going to lean on his faith to start over and clean up - his faith in Buddha that is.
Over a billion people all over the world put their faith in Buddhism which teaches to focus on self enlightenment through suffering and right living. Sadly, almost a billion people have it all wrong.
Buddha won’t tame Tiger. Only the spirit of the living God has that kind of power. For any man that deals with lust and temptation (and if you are a man, you do), we know in the overly sexual society in which we live that God’s power is our only hope. The flesh cannot be tamed merely by will power or via the pathway formulate by a man that lived long ago and is still dead.
We have to depend on God and not on ourselves. For when we depend on ourselves or anything other than God, we fail. Tiger fell hard. But don’t be fooled, he wasn’t thinking this would happen to him and each of us is could fall just has hard.
Tiger still has the three things some people in the world want the most – money, fame, and power.
His price?
The thing he loved the most – his family.
Only the one that created the Tiger can tame one and it’s our job to give Him the reigns every single day.
I can only pray Tiger let’s Jesus paint him some new stripes.
"Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.” Ephesians 4:19
© 2010, J. Brady"
I say it how I see it and I make no bones about it."
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