Survivor - Redemption Island - comes to an end..

This past Sunday was the final of Survivor season # 22 and the end of Redemption Island season #1. While the game ended with somewhat of a dud, meaning no suspense with Rob the professional survivor player taking the prize as sole survivor after his 4th time playing the game in the last 10 years. I was actually pulling for Rob to some extent because he had played the game so well with the alliances he formed and how he positioned himself to not be the target, which seemed impossible at the beginning.

Matt the young Christian whom I've posted about previously, spent most of his time on Survivor at redemption Island fell one challenge short of getting back in the game. Matt continued to the end on the recap show giving glory to God for his time on Survivor and commented that during the airing of the season many of his friends and family indicated that redemption island was the place where Matt was intended to be all along. I agree with his family and friends.

As Mike testified on the recap show that Survivor had been life changing in that he had grown closer to God by having the opportunity to spend time on redemption island with Matt.

In the end Matt did not win the millions of dollars, but he won at lot of respect which was evident by him finishing second in the fan favorite voting to Rob. But bigger than that was how he was a witness for God to Mike and others in the game. In the end it is a game and it is television, but God is present everywhere and in all situations. I have yet to see a Survivor season where matters of personal faith were so overt and codo's to CBS for not avoiding the discussion.

Life lesson is to never under estimate where God can use you. At one point Matt did not see how he could be used for God being outside the game, but he did, but not without Matt being open and intentional for being used by God and in a graceful way.