What’s So Magical About Sin?
I am writing this as
a concern for believers; including myself. I hope it will be taken in love.
I am becoming more
and more aware as I study certain passages in my quiet time that the culture we
have, in essence, created has us so confused about morality and what is
acceptable to God and what isn’t. Even thirty years ago some of the things on
television and in the theaters would have shocked most communities…now movies
about male strippers, sex every other scene, taking god’s name in vain, drug
use…even children’s movies are infused with sexual innuendo. Why? Do we, the
church, continue to support this type of behavior? Most people would say, “No!
Of course not! I would never say those things are okay?”
However, I am saddened
by ladies (and men alike) who are constantly posting about going to see Magic
Mike or reading Shades of Grey. We laugh about it. Think it’s funny. Justifying
sin doesn’t make it okay. I heard someone say once, the things we laugh about,
we tend to accept. Degrading men is just as disgusting as degrading women. I
wonder how many of these zealous women in line at theaters across the country
would be appalled if their husbands went to see Magic Mikayla. Would a movie of
this type based on women stripping be as “awesome and spell-binding”? I think
most women would be frustrated with their husbands and boyfriends and lots of
couches would be warmed for several nights.
Our nation is
becoming more and more oversexed and morally depraved as the years go by. The
thing that concerns me the most is how we as believers are contributing to it.
I know many women who are active in their churches, solid in their faith and
stood in line in the heat this weekend to see this movie. I also have many
friends who are reading the Shades of Grey trilogy. They are talking about how
amazing it is. Both are considered pornography. How can we say pornography is
amazing? Could you imagine discovering your husband, boyfriend or family member
was watching pornography and saying, “Wow! That’s amazing! What was your
favorite part? Of course not. This verse has been very convicting to me lately:
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for
from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23
Sisters in the Lord,
don’t allow the world to infiltrate your minds. Press forward and seek to
glorify God. I am challenging myself with this as well. I hope I do not come
across as judgmental, I am sincerely concerned about the direction we are
headed in as the body of Christ. If we
continue to allow the world to take us captive…we will be captivated by the world,
not the lover of our souls.
Let us throw off everything that hinders and the
sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked
out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Hebrews 12:2
"And whatever you do, whether in word or
deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him." Colossians 3:17
