A little blurb

So, I was thinking yesterday:
Jesus died. Enough people hated him that they nailed him to a cross. And they hated him so much, they exchanged him for the most vile man in all of Israel. He said, "If people hate you, just remember that they hated me first." His words probably came to most of his disciples minds. All of them were killed, because they were Christians. The church after them was hated.
Don't tell me that I have to blend into society. Don't tell me that I have agree with people. And don't talk to me about how people hate Christians because of what they do. They hated Jesus so much that they killed him. America is going to hate me so much they want to kill me. And I don't care.
Don't get me wrong. Call me out if I'm proud, because I'm more sinful and wicked than pretty much everyone else. Thats why I run to Jesus. Call me out if I'm unloving. Because Jesus loves me so much, that he came to earth, one planet revolving around one star in the millions, to die for me. I should love people that way.
But Jesus loved people that way and they killed him for the truth. Do I somehow think it will be different for me? Stand up for what you believe.

Umm....

Wow!

So, its been a really long time since I've blogged but I guess I have too much on my mind tonight to think about and I thought that maybe if I wrote it down I would be able to sleep some.

I think I can explain better what I believe writing it down, because I've never been much of a debater or quick thinker on the spot. Someone today asked me why I didnt like watching movies with strip clubs or naked women in them. I wanted to explain why, but I never did a good job of it. So here we go:

First, God says not to. Jesus said, "Whoever lusts after a woman has already committed adultry in his heart." I'm definitely a guy and if something like that pops onto the screen, I'm definitely going to be lusting. If God exists, then it makes sense that he knows what's best. If he says not to even lust, I'm not going to. I believe that he exists and that he's... well... God.

Second, and more of why I think God says these things, is because it completely degrades girls. In any guy's mind, in that situation, a girl is no more than a body. If I watched that, it would be only out of my own selfishness; I wouldnt care about who the girl was, how her life was, how she was feeling. It would be all about me and completely selfish. Yeah- its only a movie, why not watch. I dont want to watch because I dont want to be like so many of the guys in society that treat girls that way, just for what they can get out of them. I dont want to think that way- and the movies are an easy way to start.

Third, it makes sex so cheap. There's something deeply intimate and spiritual about it that it kinda makes me angry when people constantly joke about it and talk about it and its in movies and tv shows as some kind of whatever, all the time, nonchalant thing. Instead its something life changing, that connnects you with another person like nothing else on earth can. To throw in the Bible it makes two people become "one flesh." So, all the dirty jokes and women in movies etc., I kind of relate to something like Sept 11. Its just something that shouldnt be made cheap in that way- and I feel the same about sex.

And give guys a chance. There's always going to be things you like about them and hate about them. Haha- Bible says that too. But there's one that's good enough to make your life better than you can imagine right now.