Just finished listening/watching Tiger Woods’ apology to the entire world for his adultery. While everyone seems to sympathize for the guy and felt his anguishing pain through the gooping apology, I thought Tiger missed the point on it all.

He looked crushed, wore out, yet filled with Tiger Woods’ pride as he apologized to everyone in the entire universe. He begged that the media leave his family alone, unaware of the impact he has as a person in society. He spoke of reconnecting with his Buddhist past, hopefully finding the moral fortitude to press on and “change.” He is returning to golf sometime in the future: reconnecting with the only thing he can do well. And he’s returning to therapy…whatever that means.

What did Tiger Woods’ miss? He missed out on forgiveness. He apologized with near desperate pleas, casting tear-filled words into a heartless, scrutinizing society. A man does not recover from such sin on their own goodness. Romans 7:18 says, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.” So Tiger Woods’ attempt to make this all better will NEVER succeed because “In Him [Christ] we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.” Ephesians 1:7…not through anything else.

Tiger Woods is reaching out to Buddha…

…yet Buddha offers no FORGIVENESS or HOPE. Buddha only looks back at you through closed eyes…stone-faced and unloving.