Reading through the news took me to a really sad story and an indication of how messed up our world has become.
A 20 year old girl getting so drunk at a themed night (ironically called 'Misbehaviour') in a Cardiff nightclub that she stripped off completely during a 'Innocent' wet t-shirt contest whilst being egged on by the crowd.
One 'fan' wrote 'She just got drunk and naked for a bit of banter. No biggie'. I wonder if her family, future husband and future children share that sentiment. Imagine it was your daughter/girlfriend/wife. It is a 'biggie' really isn't it?
This just sums up how I feel about Britain right now. How many people actually truly care about each other? Not by their words - How are you doing? (and I ask that way too often without truly caring - to me truly caring is not just accepting okay for an answer if you know something is wrong and trying to do something about it to help them!) - but by loving on people as ourselves, like Jesus commanded (Matthew 22:39 is one of a few occasions in the Bible). I would love to see a Britain where people truly thought about others and blessed others rather than just pay fake respect to each other, if even that for some.
Who was looking out for this girl? Everyone just wanted a bit of pleasure, as if life is all about enjoying yourself with no consideration for others and for the God that made you that many suppress. (yes, there is no such thing as an atheist, everyone knows God exists - Romans 1:18-20 - and are suppressing the truth because it doesn't quite fit in with their idea for life) I am all for enjoying life, but I have tried without and with God and I know where true enjoyment comes. Not in the perverted, selfish and sensual orientations of today's world but in the joyful, selfless and loving arms of Jesus Christ. It's actually scientifically proven as well! Yes, I said His Name..sue me! (I believe a Christian will go to prison in this country for standing for their faith in the next ten years, free speech and belief is getting this suppressed here)
This is a challenge for me also, when praying about this I felt God telling me to lead by example. If I want to see others care about people then I need to care about people so ridiculously that people take notice and are inspired that way themselves. Not everyone will take notice but some will and lives will be changed and God's Kingdom would come further on this earth. Incentive enough?
The Bible is all about examples, from the good but tainted such as Abraham, Moses & David to the tainted but changed Jacob & Paul to the perfect example of Jesus.
This society drives me crazy, from the way it denies and buries God when every argument against God assumes God through the assumption of the laws of logic, (Ask any Atheist how he knows anything and watch him squirm, you cannot claim to know anything without confessing the existence of God - I am happy for an atheist to come and debate this!), from the way it takes a pleasurable drink (for some) such as beer or wine, drink way too much of it..wrecking their bodies, their relationships, their minds and their lives pretending it's cool whilst doing so. If you need alcohol to have fun and be confident, you have serious issues.
To continue this rant, the word 'banter' is getting out of hand. I am not against fun between friends, but when this 'fun' involves serious repercussions that will affect them their whole life (as for the 20 year old Glamorgan student) you have to question whether you are treating that person as a friend or your worst enemy. True banter is fun for everyone, not just you!
God Loves us, God sent us Jesus, Jesus told us to love each other, we love each other. God Loves us...this is the true circle of life.
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God Bless you all, God wants us to change the world, to change our lives...He can do anything, therefore we can do it!
Love and Blessings :-)
Women are treated like meat in society. They are just some disposable trinket that is used once or a couple of times and then binned.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be people who take advantage of the other sex (be it men or women) but what is shocking in our society is that we think that's ok.
Wow! That's so sad to read...but to quote my dad, "we don't get to choose our consequences." I'm point in saying that does stem from condoning those who posted the videos of this girl online, but it does go to say whenever we make choices we must be willing to bear the consequences. We can easily choose to simply complain about the degradation we see in the world...but with that choice the consequence which follows is simply a person making noise. Instead when we choice to follow God and live by His example, we may not change the world but we are able to be lights in dark places and touch those around us. We have to be the change we wish to see in the world (to quote Mother Teresa)...so if we want to see more Jesus in this world, then we need to choose to be more life Jesus :)
ReplyDeleteWow Mike, you really hit the nail on the head there, I totally agree with all your saying, and its going to take real people that love Jesus to change this, I think we have to come up higher in Him and really live what the bible teaches by loving 1 person at a time and being real servants of God. Lets not just give people sympathy, lets get into their messes with them, lets live through stuff with them and never give up on them because that's what true love does.
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