There is a lot that has been said about Tiger’s public apology. I don’t have many thoughts or comments about it.
Here is what I came away thinking after his speech – the Bible is so true!
The Bible says “all have sinned.”
The Bible says “no one understands.”
The Bible says “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.”
The Bible says there are those who are “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
The Bible says “the way of peace they have not known.”
The Bible says “there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”
When speaking as someone who did not listen to his father’s instruction on adultery, the Bible says “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.”
When speaking of someone who falls into adultery, the Bible says “With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.”
The Bible says “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
Just watching and listening to Tiger’s apology made me think of the reality of all these Biblical truths. What I find so heavy and heart-breaking is that Tiger would believe and affirm all of these Biblical truths that I have quoted above. (His speech proved it.)
Oh, how I pray that he would believe and affirm all that I will quote below.
In the Bible, Jesus says “I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
In the Bible, Jesus says “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
The Bible says “He (Jesus) is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him.”
The Bible says “though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
The Bible says “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
The Bible says “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”
The Bible says “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away…”
The Bible says “there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
The Bible says “unless you repent you will like wise perish.”
The Bible says “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell; They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.”
The Bible says “the LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love…The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. he fulfills the desire of those who fear Him; he also hears their cry and saves them.”
Please join me in praying that Tiger may know those truths and know the God of those truths.