Tim Tebow: Showing Christ by Being Scorned

The media has been all over the story of Tim Tebow and his girlfriend breaking up over lack of sex, applauding the former Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, and mocking the former Quarterback. And remember Ms. Culpo is the one who broke up with Tebow because he didn’t want to be sexually involved, not the other way around. The media is lifting up a woman who wanted to be more sexually involved and is belittling a man who made a moral decision. This shouldn’t surprise us though. In a world where sex is seen as the best thing the world has to offer and sexual morality is laughed at, the media is always going to look down upon someone who abstains from having sex before marriage. Yes, our society is mocking Tim and in mocking him they are mocking God, but that doesn’t mean we should be afraid to rejoice in the fact that Tim Tebow made a God-honoring decision. Millions of people are seeing what Christians don’t get involved in, not because they are perfectly moral people, but because they are saved by grace and living a life to the praise of their Savior.

Tim was in a position where if he had tried to please his girlfriend he would’ve received praise from the world. The media would’ve given him approval. He would’ve been seen as cool and sexy. But Tim isn’t looking to be lifted up by men. He doesn’t want people to like him. Tim Tebow wants to bring glory to God, and that’s all he wants. By bringing glory to God of course he’s going to get ridiculed, but he doesn’t care because Jesus said that all who followed Him would be despised and mocked. Christians aren’t going to find a life of pleasure and ease, where people look up to them and praise them. This world is not our home, we’re just passing through.

“Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.”

-1 Peter 2:11, 12