Role Models

When did Americans decide someone who plays a game is a role model?

 It's true that an athlete puts in long hours and great effort to perfect their game. So do criminals. Keep yer panties on straight, I am not saying athletes are criminals, well, not all of them. I'm saying just putting a lot of effort into something does not a role model make.

 I have NEVER in my life heard a game player say he or she became an athlete to become a role model, that I believed. 

(I actually was impressed with Hulk Hogan when he said he never wanted to be a role model for kids. He just wanted to do what he did best.)

A role model is someone who has not only expertise, but vision.
Who are you perfecting your talent for? What is the end game? Why are you even doing this?

Athletes are just people. They play games and a lot of them get paid to do it. Until they can't, or don't make the money holders satisfied.

 How is that a role model? After the applause and the rah-rah is gone, what is there?

The guy they call Magic Johnson could throw a ball in a netted hoop really good. He was, and still is, a role model for thousands of boys nation wide. Why? He has the morals of a stray dog in season. He's a poster child for living with HIV. He seems immune to the fact that he spread a deadly virus to MANY foolish women. Then Pres.Bush praised him for speaking up and being a hero. He is not a hero. 

In 2018, a year only four days old, there has already been a soldier killed in duty. He had expertise. And a vision, a purpose. 
What is his name? 

What is the name of the "men" kneeling on the sideline of a game field? I'll bet most of you know.

 In 2016, more than 90,000 people, worldwide, were murdered because they professed the name of Jesus. Some of them were pastors, teachers, missionaries, but most of them were just people trying to make it through the day.

 I don't know if any of them could throw a ball. Or swing a golf club.
 But, I know they had a purpose; and a vision.
 And I don't know their names, or their faces. 

They didn't follow Christ for the money, or the thrill or even the fame. 

They did it because they discovered He was so much more than they had ever known. 

They knew they were going to be role models and took it seriously, to the point of death. 

Not from a disease for having sex with every girl that came at them, or from getting injured playing a game, or from running faster that a dozen other folk, but from knowing their decision for Jesus was illegal. And right.

Who is your role model?

 Is it really God, or are you wrapped up in the world still?