Sometimes I'll catch a college or high school wrestling match. They're kind of neat to watch. The kids give it their all. And when they know, or the ref knows, that they are beaten, the mat gets tapped. It's a different way of crying uncle (perhaps best saved for arm wrestling?). I don't ever watch pro theatrics, er, wrestling, because it's not. It's theatrics.
Mat tapping and crying uncle is great for wrestling. It's great for another thing as well, and this of a deeper much more profound nature. What better way to end the endless search for ourselves, to fill that empty hole deep within us, to getting sick and tired of being sick and tired, than to tap the mat and cry uncle. One of the first thing we do when we have messed up our lives so much that we (and others) can't stand us is to cry out to God, "God help me!" That's tapping the mat.
That's the point in our lives when we cry uncle to the life we have been living, continuing the destructive habits we have been following and come to the crossroads--do we yield our lives to Jesus or not. God isn't a wrestling referee, but he sure will place the mat near us so that we can tap it when we know it is time to change ourselves.
Bottom Line Thought: Have you considered tapping the mat and turning your life toward Jesus?
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