PURE TEBOW

Why does Tim Tebow get under people's skin?  Why would goodness cause such chafing and irritation?  Do they think he's a poser?  If a showboater is all about the show...is Tebow all "show"?  


Here are three things that come to mind about Tim.


1.  He proclaims the virtue of saving sex for marriage.
DARE we mock what God set out?  Our sex-soaked world runs hard to diminish that choice.  But even the stats are in favor of waiting.


Commandments and emotional residuals aside, recreational sex brings promiscuity/STDs/unwanted pregnancies, and associated medical risks.  No one thinks they will get pregnant, but it happens.  Stats say people who live together before marriage are more likely to divorce.  And they say a woman's likelihood for marriage is dimished if she has a child out of wedlock (by age 35, only 70% of unwed mothers are married vs. 88% of women who have not had a child).   http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/351    There are alarming stats for how single parenthood causes poverty/public assistance.
  
We may act like sex has no consequences, but it is powerful. http://thefreshxpress.com/2009/04/what-happened-to-saving-sex-for-marriage/

In the professional sports arena of bad behavior, why in the world would people not be delighted to have GOOD behavior modeled for their kids?  

2.  His knee-drop and eye-black cause others to think about God.  
Tim Tebow reaches for high ground and isn't that wordless leadership? 

If people feel Tebow is forcing his religion on them, perhaps they are really feeling conviction.  Conviction in an honest moment is profitable.

3.  He is positive and encouraging of others, including those who treat him poorly.  

Here is a short excerpt from an interview done with Tim Tebow and Peter King, writing for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED:

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King:  Before I let Tebow go, I asked him if anyone after the game...coaches, players, execs...had said anything memorable to him.

Tebow:  "Everybody was happy...but I'll tell you one thing that happened during the week that I remember".

King:  Good, I thought.  Maybe it was John Fox sidling up to him and saying something sportingly profound like "Son, we're going to ride that left arm and those legs to the SuperBowl."

Tebow:  "I had an opportunity to talk with a kid named Blake Appleton from Florida on Thursday.  He's a leukemia patient who's just been moved to hospice.  And after the game, when I was being interviewed on TV, I got to say his name.  That's what I'm proud of today.  I let him know people cared about him.  I let him know God has a plan for him."

King:  And that was the end of the Tebow interview.  He had to rush to get on the bus to the airport.  Except...

Tebow:  "Have a good day, Mr. King.  And God bless you."

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Pure Tebow.  

He may be polarizing, but when Christ was on earth, not everyone liked what He said.  Keep walking your talk, Tim.

And please, Lord, increase the ears that hear.