God has been doing a number on my life recently by making me deal with areas in my life I refused to give over to him. I never understood why someone would not just give over areas in their life to god and instead pay the consequences for the sin. But when it came to my sinful areas it wasn’t a problem because I refused to see that there was a problem with them. Among the many areas God is working on Media and advertising is one of those areas that god is hitting hard. In our world today satin is really attacking our media by slowly attacking it like the tortoise and the hare. Slowly attacking us threw passivity. If it was a fast hare attack our culture may have issues and refuse the change, but slowly changing things will make us not see the changes. Recently in January of 2011 a court decided that the FCC cannot fine for nudity on TV. Talk about a slow attack on the morals of America. If we ignore TV and Movies and look at advertising most ads use good looking men and women more than likely in very few clothes to advertise their product. The recent trend is to advertise in a way so that the add has nothing to do with the product but will shock you enough to remember the company or product that they are advertising. So what happened to being mentally pure[1]. There is more to being mentally pure then just staying away from the obvious. As part of this process for me God was talking to me about Movies. I am a big horror file guy and I owned 20 or 30 horror films. But God said it was time to root them out of my life. Not only was I to not watch any more bad horror films but he wanted me to throw away all the movies I had. He would not give me peace selling them I had to trash them so someone would not find them. But as I go through my days I notice billboards that do not please God and TV and even people and how they dress. Plus I am wired as a male to be stimulated by all of these potential sins. I feel like I am surrounded on all sides and the world does nothing but laugh because the world does nothing but Satan’s will and it is all around me. What is a man or woman seeking God to do in this corroded world? Luckily God said he would not test us more than we can handle and that in every situation that he would give us a way of escape[2]. One thing that I have learned through all of this is no matter how hard life get there is one thing that can help guarantee victory in life’s battles. The best thing to do is to fall on your knees and pray to the one and only real God who can solve all of life’s trials and who loves us more than we can even imagine. Praise God.
[1] Psalm 24: 3-5 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1 Peter 2: 11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
[2] 1 Corinthians 10: 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.