The fan craze hit the Phoenix valley this past weekend. The current phenomena: Hannah Montana. The young teenager performed before a packed house this past weekend. Certain ticket areas were rumored to go in excess of $1,000 per person. Her name was splashed amongst the headlines of the local media, all awaiting the triumphant entry of this princess-esque young girl.
What did she bring? Entertainment? Escape? A portrait of how our young women should look and act?
My point is not to "bash" the young girl referred to as "Hannah Montana." Rather, it is to observe a troubling tendency amongst our culture. Namely, it astounds me that we are so willing to pay homage to a young girl and yet we are so cursory in our attitudes towards an Almighty God. This tendency, of course, transcends the current Hannah Montana fad. It can be found anywhere there is a fan base.
We flock to the secular stadium, but we flee from the spiritual sphere. Who is most worthy of our adoration? An entertainer or the eternal, everlasting Elohim? The answer is obvious, but our actions would not always suggest so. I am reminded of Romans 7: 14-25.
Soli Deo Gloria
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Perhaps an issue is the almightiness of God. The Bible, in my opinion, is one of the hardest books to read. Its gravity and stark reality can make running away in fear very attractive. The message, even of the relatively more merciful Gospels, requires attention and bravery. When faced with a choice between the Bible on the one side, and War and Peace, the World Series, or Benedict Spinoza on the other, the Bible may be the hardest choice. All the others can be treated lightly or argued over without much consequence at the end. The message of God, with its dire consquences (for each person)in this life and the next, is not dismissable; and it probably leaves the flippant reader feeling unsettled despite his flippancy.
To want to know and love God requires the virtue of courage, and that virtue is rare.
Such a virtue is rare indeed.
I think you are correct, but what is it about the Scriptures that are so unsettling?
Is it conviction? The piercing capabilities of truth? Is it the fact that it preaches a message which requires of its listener nothing short of drastically altering one's life?
Whatever the reason (I'm curious what others think on this point), I am saddened by the loss of trepidity in our society towards an Almighty Being.
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