Tiger Woods: A Champion What?
Reading the Sunday paper here in Singapore, you can't escape the world wide interest in Tiger Woods. Yes, he is a champion golfer. Possibly the best the world has ever seen. He sent tv ratings sky high whenever he played in a championship game. Unfortunately, those same tv ratings went even higher when he publically acknowledged that he had been a champion adulterer.
I have written and spoken in various places on the issue of Sex and Power in the Workplace. (For a CD, check my website audio offerings: https://www.poppysmith.com/ ) Covering how men attact women, and women attract men, I encourage both genders to watch for and take steps against sexual temptation that, if acted on, almost certainly leads to regrets. In addition to loss of reputation, possibly loss of job, marriage and family, for the Christian there is the loss of a witness that honors God.
Tiger Wood's work brought him fame and incredible fortune; it also brought him the power to attract women with no scruples about having an affair with a married man. Tiger said in his press conference:
"I knew my actions were wrong, but I convinced myself that normal rules didn't apply. I never thought about who I was hurting. Instead, I thought only about myself."
Sexual temptation is powerful--we're foolish if we don't realize that. Tiger Woods knows it--and now the whole world will watch to see if his reputation as a blatantly unfaithful, spouse can be redeemed.
In God's dealings with us--the answer is always "Yes." We can be redeemed no matter how far we've strayed from God. He promises that "if we confess our sins, He IS faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from ALL unrighteousness" l John.1:9.
This promise applies not only to us, but also to Tiger Woods, and all the women who had affairs with him.