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June 28, 2010

BET Awards

Like most of our peers, I spent 3 hours of my life watching the BET awards and had the following thoughts:

1. 1 John 2:16-17 states that, " For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever." and that to me was exactly what the BET awards were. A flesh fest. That is fading away. Only the things of God are forever. I'll say it again. 1 John 2:16-17 was about the BET awards and the celebration/worship of self-pleasure and enjoyment. It was fake. It was temporal. A house built on sand or on the principles of this world, can't stand.


2. When Trey Songz thanked, "his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" I questioned out loud, how can he do that? Then I realized that I do the same thing at times, while jamming to his songs like "Neighbors Know My Name" "Invented Sex" (and the remix) and "Say Ah." Trust, that conviction didn't feel good because I realize that I'm just as culpable as he is by consuming his music. If people like me didn't like it, he wouldn't produce it. So if I can thank Jesus, so can he. I have to do better, before I expect the same of somebody else basically.

3. I spent more time watching this show with blatant Anti-Christ messaging than I did reading my Bible this week. Def. not ok, where are my priorities? The sad thing is, most people spent more time watching this than they did reading their Bible in the past month. Think about it, when have you ever spent 3 hours in worship? in prayer for someone other than yourself? in fasting? in the Word? on your face before God?

4. If we worshiped God like we worshiped our celebs...revival will hit our nation and our communities like never before. Seriously. If we LOVED God like we LOVE hip-hop artists...we would move heaven to heal our land.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen! That was real!

Anonymous said...

real words!