They crowned an unknown as the British Open Champion. His name is Louis Oosthuizen, and he is described as a 27-year-old family man from South Africa. One of the commentators, Paul Azinger, referred to Louis’s willingness to embrace the moment and the great opportunity before him on the final round, saying “Everybody wants to be noticed, but no one wants to be watched.”
Wow, what a thought! We do want to be noticed as – a leader, a servant, a Christ-follower, and the list could go on and on, but we really aren’t all that excited about being watched. We say, “Notice me, I’m special,” but we really don’t want people to watch how we relate to people, how we treat people, how we work, live, etc.
The apostle Paul had just the opposite view. He basically said that he didn’t want to be noticed as someone special. He even said that he was the least of all the apostles. But he did encourage everybody to watch him. Paul told us in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.”
This is a great question to think about: Are you into getting noticed, or being watched?
