The Media & You

Stop sitting around and watching others go deeper when Jesus paid it for you!

What are we really compromising in our life’s that we just scan over? We say, “We want to be like You, God!” Yet, we do not discipline ourselves enough to demonstrate His characteristics through us.

The specific discipline I am going to talk about is us versus media. Now say if Jesus were to sit on the couch next to you during each movie you watch, would He enjoy the movie too? I do not believe Jesus would be able to watch a movie where ignorant people use HIS Father’s name in vain. I do not think He would sit there and ‘listen’ to the “F bombs, S words, B words, etc.” I do not think He would laugh at the sexual innuendo’s between two unmarried couples. It is the same as us disrespecting our Husband, Friend, Father. Jesus would not open His perfectness for “entertainment” that way. Once we go deeper in Him, the things that use to entertain us will bore us. When we start being formed into His image, we will walk in His personality.

Also, this is the same with music. Would Jesus jam out with you in the car to a song about “partying & drinking?” And He’s COMPLETELY against all that. It GRIEVES His heart to see His children ignorant and in rebellion. Why should we support the people singing about it if we “love what He loves and hate what He hates?” Jesus is not going to just “skip” over the bad words He does not want to hear. Just as Curvine has sang: "I just like the beat for pete's sake. Well, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of yeast when it is mixed into the batch... So what's it Jay Z, Kanye, Gaga, Katy, blah blah. Don't like it? So what? You can pray for their salvation and still hate what their makin. But while they're in defiance, we can't afford to buy it." [You Can't Have Them]. He is not going to listen to the song because it is a good beat even though the meaning behind the song is horrid. We cannot “filter” these things or just disregard them. What we put in comes OUT, "For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him." [Matthew 12:34-36]. Jesus is not entertained by these things. He is entertained by YOU. He is entertained by HIS CHILDREN.

So next time you turn on a movie, TV show, song, etc, ask yourself: “Would Jesus watch this or listen to this with me?”

(Also same thing goes for the girls on Pinterest who lust after half guys naked bodies and "just cute" celebrities--- stop posting and looking up unrealistic love; wait on God's gift for you! Same for men, I won't say much about it but WATCH your eyes. Your future wife would be disappointed otherwise.)

To get deeper, get rid of the hidden compromise. You were made for greater things.

[Yes, this speaks to myself as well.] –Harsh thoughts but truth.