I am just from watching a "funny" video of a man who was chasing his crush and his wife shows up and he starts dancing...it is "funny".......Oh...pardon me, let me explain why I use the quotation marks...you see I do not see anything funny with a married man chasing another woman no matter the humor they try to put in it.......
I have received so many "funny" clips..audios.images through social media and some I am even tempted to share until the Holy Spirit convicts me...then I try to rationalize that it was shared in a Church group am in so it has to be okay.....
What am I getting at?
The impact of Christianity is not felt so much because we have compromised in one way or another and one way that we have compromised and we do not seem to notice is in the jokes we listen to, laugh at and share......
The problem?
You see why would you as a Christian who reads the Bible and believes it as true....laugh at the video of that man chasing his crush when the Bible condemns adultery? Oh...am being too spiritual???
Why would you as a Christian share a "funny" image with curse words when the very Bible you believe clearly says that;
Ephesians 5:4: Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:8: But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth....
Why would you as a Christian sit down
watching a stand up comedian making jokes that are obscene and laugh.?...
Why would you as a Christian share "funny" audios,
videos, pictures when you believe that God has called you to be holy just as He
is holy.?
Why do we want to fit in so much into the world that is
Why do you feel the need to be labelled as cool when it requires
The solution...
I believe that if you never get the conviction of the Holy Spirit
regarding certain jokes, then you do not spend enough time with God.... because
the more you spend time with God...the more you get to know what pleases
Him......
So start spending more time in His presence......
If you are hanging around people or you are in a group in social
media where people share so much of these "funny" jokes ...I suggest
you share with them that you do not entertain such jokes....if they do not
respect your stand...cut them off...it is better to make it to heaven without
one hand.....and one eye....
If it is the comedy movies you watch...the standup comedy shows
you watch....I suggest you stop......because if we say we are Christians we
have to be willing to count everything a loss for the sake of Christ.......
It is high time we take Christianity seriously because Christ took
it seriously to the point of giving His life for us....then we will be a light
in this world....a salt that will not lose its saltiness.....we will be
distinct.....and stand up for Christ when the world is against Him.
amen amen and amen! God bless you! this has made my morning. More often than not we compromise to please men but in the process lose out on life. what would it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul? we often times are afraid to speak righteousness and holiness because we fear labels, we fear rejection and most of all just fear the outcome..but 2nd Timothy 1:7 says For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind
ReplyDeletewe are filled with boldness and courage to stand against every form of fear including fear to stand for holiness. I have been in many situations where I know a joke is not ''funny'' or a picture should not be shared still I share anyway because I want to fit in..James 4:4 Adulterers and[b] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Psalms 1:1 to 4
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
May our delight be in the law of the Lord! indeed may we stand out and stick out that God will find us faithful! thank you dear
God bless and keep using you
Wow! Thanks for sharing Diana. Indeed God requires us to be Holy just as He is....we need to be bold. Thank you
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