Tiger Woods missed the cut at the British Open last Sunday. The world gasped: “He’s not supposed to miss a cut; he’s supposed to win the entire tournament.” But he missed the cut, which meant he had to go home after two rounds instead of playing the weekend of four rounds. He shot over par on several holes. He missed putts that he always makes. He was sent home early.

Tiger Woods has only missed five cuts in his twelve years of playing the pro tour. When he was interviewed after missing the cut, his simple response was, “Nobody’s perfect. I simply made a lot of mistakes, and my mistakes compounded mistakes.”

For some reason, we hold Tiger Woods to a higher standard. We expect him to win everything, and if he doesn’t, we think he’s not performing well enough. There’s no way Tiger Woods is going to win every time. Why do we hold people to a standard that they cannot keep?

We sometimes try to hold our leaders and ourselves to this same impossible standard. Could it be that we at AMF can learn from Tiger Woods that we don’t have to be perfect, that we can make mistakes and learn from those mistakes? There is no one who is perfect except Jesus, and that’s why we call Him “Savior.” When Jesus is in the equation, it changes the answer because He can take what we think is a failure and use it for His glory to accomplish incredible things.