RE: Backetball, Football, Baseball... players... Why?
aleshanee > 02-11-2017, 02:29 AM
the hard answer to this?..... can be a difficult one to grasp...... ... ..... but often times young people will pick mentors from the sports world.... if they are boys.... or from the rock music world if they are girls.... ... and sometimes one of each from both..... whenever they feel their own parents are either poor mentors or have abdicated the job..... .....and the reason most in that predicament do not pick God as their mentor once their own parents have proven inept or failed them, is because they see God as having given them those inept failures as parents.... ...and they wonder what should He know?..... or why should He help them now if He knowingly gave them such a handicap from the start?......
but they are not justified in that attitude about God..... ..at best it;s nothing less than a misunderstanding on their part.... and a failure of their own to seek and understand both the grace and the mercy of God... .....or else they would choose God as their heavenly mentor and ask Him to provide an earthly one for them as well...... ...
sports figures and music stars... like all entertainers.... make horrible mentors...... ...all the atributes a good mentor should have... righteousness... patience...longsuffereing... humility...to name a few.......... are the very ones they lack..... .....instead.. most of what they care about... and everything they focus on... is themselves... and increasing their own fame and fortune... ....sadly they see all fans.. no matter how young or impressionable.... as nothing more than another means to achieve that end....
to see sports figures as an inspiration for living a more healthy life and increasing ones own physical fitness....or striving harder to achieve goals.... might be a good thing..... but that is as far as it should go..... truth is most sports figures even see their own health and fitness as little more than a means to increase their fame and fortunre..... and once they feel they have achieved that goal..... some of them will discard even their own health and fitness as well.........