Tiger Woods: How He Can Turn His Life Around
"It's not about you."That sentence from the first page of The Purpose Driven Life may be the best opening line of a non-fiction book in history. Tigers Woods would do well to memorize it -- with his hands cupped around his eyes like he does when he's lining up a putt but instead, focus on that sentence: It's not about you. Of course everyone's got two cents of advice. What I think he doesn't understand is that this life is not about him. It's not about you or me. It's not about our happiness or our pleasure. It's about God and his purposes. to understand that is his only way out of the mess he's in. Sure, he needs counseling and he needs to be honest and many other things but those are tactics to an ultimate purpose. The real question is: What on Earth are you here for? It's not about golf and pleasure. His problems are nothing new. Consider Solomon, a king with much more power and fame than TW, who lived more than 2,000 years ago. He tried to discover the meaning of life through everything imaginable and wrote about it in Ecclesiastes:
And what did he discover?
And still more:
Solomon's final conclusion:
Again, it's not about you. Or me. We are not at the center of the world. It's about God and his purposes. Until we figure that out, we'll all fall short of true happiness, as Billy Graham points out. Now that's my 2 cents. What's yours?
I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven.
And what did he discover?
I thought in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good." But that also proved to be meaningless.
And still more:
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my work,
and this was the reward for all my labor.Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
Solomon's final conclusion:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
Again, it's not about you. Or me. We are not at the center of the world. It's about God and his purposes. Until we figure that out, we'll all fall short of true happiness, as Billy Graham points out. Now that's my 2 cents. What's yours?
