Christ in the Media

I love it when secular news reporters simply cannot understand someone's actions. What I mean is, it blesses my heart when someone who loves Christ is questioned about their actions by a news reporter simply because their actions are so foreign to the world's way of thinking and doing things.
For instance, take Saturday night when the Heisman trophy was awarded to Tim Tebow. Prior to the announcement, one of the ESPN reporters interviewed Tebow. He asked Tebow why he was so humble (this was after the reporter had stated that Tebow was the most humble man he had ever met). Tebow's response? Something to the effect of, "God gave me the ability to play football." I love it! The reporter could not grasp how someone with Tebow's ability as a sophomore at college could be so humble. The response was breathtaking for me: "God gave me the ability." Tebow knows he got everything he has from the Father, his Creator. The world does not know how to react to humbleness that is a result of knowing that nothing we have is earned, but a gift of grace from God. Read more about Tim Tebow and what he said when he accepted the award at this Baptist Press article. He thanked Jesus Christ at least twice! Praise God for Tim Tebow! May God raise up many more young men and women like him in the future!
Or take the shootings that happened Sunday in Colorado. One of the shootings happened at a Youth With a Mission office. The next day, on the front page of many on-line news pages reported of this organization taking Christianity to more than 150 countries (if my facts are correct). Also, when the Today show interviewed some of the eyewitnesses at the church where the second shooting took place, the reporter again could not understand something. The reporter heard that the couple she was interviewing actually prayed for the gunman. By the look on the reporter's face, it was inconceivable that anyone would pray for an attacker like that! You're supposed to hate people like that, right? If you are of the world you are. But Jesus says to "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). The world cannot understand the ways of Christ. Read more of this in an article posted at msnbc.com. Pay careful attention to page two when the writer of the article states, "Some members of the congregation reacted with compassion and forgiveness, in keeping with their faith." Oh how I love it when the secular news media notices something different about those who are living out their faith!
Please don't misunderstand me. We must "grieve with those who grieve" and pray for the families of those who lost loved ones and this church that must be shocked at what happened. I do not want to take anything away from their heartache. But I do want to rejoice in the fact that God works "all things" together for good and His glory by giving the nation and the national media some tastes as to what Christianity is: salt and light in a world that so desperately needs it.