Sin

Okay, my friend got me going today. She posted about a topic I have been stewing about and I took up way too much of her comment page with my own soapbox. I thought I would go ahead and post more here.

Saturday when she was over, she mentioned that she watched the Bachelor. Roddy told her we had been watching it, too. Unfortunately, our common sense went out the window when we couldn't find anything else on basic cable to watch on Monday nights. So we watched it this season. Later I said, "I hate that we watch something that I'm embarrassed to admit."

Then Sunday morning I ran into a friend I hadn't seen in months and in the course of our catching up informed me of two couples who are either divorced or getting divorced. I was shocked! As prevalent as divorce is, it still cuts me to the core to hear about it. Especially among believers.

I was angry. So angry I wanted to cry. I know my sin is no different from theirs. I know this and I hope this doesn't come across as if I'm judging them.

What I don't get is that at least one person in each of those relationships did nothing to stop their sin. To turn away from it. To run to Jesus and ask Him for help before they destroyed their families!

This got me back to thinking about all the crap we fill our minds with...TV, magazines, internet. It has jaded us. It has warped our view of what God intended marriage to be. It has skewed our view of romance and love. So much so that we become so selfish and self-centered we don't care who we hurt, let alone the fact that we are blatantly, unashamedly disobeying our Father.

I'll give you my own example of how I was jaded. We used to watch House. When they introduced a lesbian relationship, we quit watching it. Why didn't we quit watching it when they had an unmarried couple having sex? Sin is sin!

We are not to be conformed to this world but are to be transformed - DIFFERENT - by the renewing our minds! Not by the filling of our minds with crap!

We are to taste and see that the Lord is good. Not taste and see what the world has to offer. We start out with a little nibble thinking it's no big deal. Soon that is what we crave! We buy into the world's philosophy that we should "do what feels good or what makes us happy." We have to "follow our hearts!" God says our hearts are deceitful above all things. We can't trust our feelings to guide us towards righteousness!

Roddy asked me if there were any other shows we watch that I would be embarrassed to tell about and thankfully there aren't. I'm still convicted, though.

At one point I said, "If our kids can't be in the room when we're watching something, maybe we shouldn't be watching it either."

Just something to think about.