Tiger Woods suffered injury before, during, or after a car crash around 2:30 AM Friday morning. Rumors are flying: Some say Tiger suffered his injuries as a result of the single vehicle crash. The police report says that his wife used a golf club to break out a window in order to extricate him from the vehicle. A couple of women are saying that a friend of theirs is having an affair with Tiger. The lady accused of having an affair says she’s not friends at all with the two who are making the accusation and that their making up a story for the money. Some even say that the rumor of the affair prompted Tiger’s wife to clobber him with the golf club.
I’m reminded of another who was accused of an affair. Potiphar’s wife said in Genesis 39:14, “See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:” As a result of this accusation Potiphar sent Joseph to the dungeon. Potiphar should have done what anybody should do in such circumstances, he should have gathered his facts. A decision based on an emotional reaction without all of the facts is very likely to be a poor decision. I’m not saying that Tiger is innocent. I’m just saying, let’s not send him to the dungeon before we have the facts.
kurt
Love is of God. God commands us to love and His commands are not grievous
Love can become our way of living life, to where it is our default position. But only with God’s Spirit. leading us.
We can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us
Yes loving people is easy when God is guiding you.
OK, I’ll weigh in. Yes it’s sometimes difficult to love people. However what God knows and what we tend to forget is that it is even more difficult to judge people, in the long run, than it is to love people. Here’s the deal: living with cynicism, mistrust, contempt, bitterness, that’s what happens to you, to me, when we judge instead of love. Yea it’s hard to love people sometimes. Yea, as Mrs. Ebag said, it’s even hard to love some people. But like everything God commands us to do, guess who’s blessed? We are.
Jesus said in John 13:34 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another…”
And Jesus even said, “…Love your enemies…” Matt. 5:44
Rick, whad-da-ya think?
Since when is loving people easy? I don’t think we know the same people Mr C.
Oh Yeah Nice picture Kurt!
Love people… let God judge them Our job is the easy one
In response to both Vacationinwant and Mrs. Ebag,
Mark Twain once said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” While I suppose there does exist a certain category of people who ascribe to this principle, for the greater population, my observation has been that most people prefer to make decisions or judgments before they have the facts because that enables them to believe what they want to believe. The conservative man on the street tends to quickly jump to the worst conclusion when a liberal finds himself caught in the media spotlight for something he has allegedly done wrong. Of course the same is true of the liberal man on the street when a conservative is in the media for one allegation or another.
Mrs. Ebag, you bring up an excellent point about how this relates to leadership. When a leader fails to get his or her facts straight before making a decision it is often at the cost of adversely effecting the lives of his followers. That’s why, while it’s important for everyone, it is critical for leaders from parents to CEO’s to get the facts first, then make their decision. Potiphar would have done well to have done so.
I agree with mrsebag. People do tend to make snap judgements, but would it really matter to anyone if it wasn’t Tiger Woods? Or Mrs. Pothiar for that matter?
Is it the fame, or is it just our “glee” to see someone famous or choosen, fail or receive negitive comments in the spot light?
That is so true. I think more people should remember that in every day decisions, we have a tendancy to make snap judements about people before we have all the facts and that is so very sad. Why do you think people do that? What makes us base our decisions on emotion before we have all the facts?
How do good leaders avoid making snap judgements and decisions which could potentially affect somebodys career or family?
What are your thoughts Mr. Bennett? Any tidbits of wisdom that you can share?