So, this is just a quick thought that came to me right as I was getting ready for bed. I should be fast asleep, since i start school tomorrow, but that would be a little contradictory to what I have to say. What I have to say is... that we need to take action. We need to pray.
The "hot scoop" that I have on all of your favorite celebrities is that they are... HUMAN! It can be so easy to forget that sometimes, and tonight I feel like God reminded me of that fact. I was listening to some music from the popular rap artist, "Kid Cudi," and a lot of his lyrics, though sometimes vulgar, are about feeling disconnected and alone in the world, lost in all it's chaos, trying to find some joy or good feeling. At first I found myself put off by some of the obscenities. Then I found myself belittling Mr. Cudi for his shameless drug references, thinking, "well that is so cliche of him, using drugs to escape the sadness!" But, then God punched me in the jaw.
I began to think how badly Kid Cudi seems to need the Lord. How all this frustration and heartache and loneliness he seems to feel, could be alleviated by the love of God. It made me sad, because I began to think how many people try to share the love of God with Kid Cudi on a regular basis? Not too many I assume. I mean, I assume in most celebrity lives, there is not a workplace christian friend who is slowly building a relationship with them to convert them. Odds are, most the people Kid Cudi works with are just as lost as he is.
It seems we get so wrapped up in looking at these people as icons and putting them on such enormous pedestals that we often forget that they are God's children as well. We are so quick to judge them, in ways we would never judge our close friends or neighbors... for some reason unknown to me, we hold them to a higher standard, when in actuality we should be holding them to a much lower standard, for many are living at the core of americas materialistic plague.
Now, i am not saying that we need to all hop in a bus and drive to all the music studios and pruduction companies and start witnessing to movie stars and musicians, but what I am calling you to do, is to become people of prayer. When you see a celebrity couple going through a divorce caused by adultery, instead of judging them, pity them, think how hard it must be to live under a magnifying glass, to have your marriage and life constantly surveyed by strangers. Then pray for them. pray for healing, pray for them to discover true love in Christ.
I am always to sickened by our obsession with celebrity scandal and with TMZ, but I have never done anything about it. So, I am going to try to make it my mission to pray for these people. Right now, i will pray for Kid Cudi, that he can find love in his life, that Jesus will work in his heart. We need to seriously cast off all the snide comments, all the judgement, and all the mundane worldliness in our lives and become Christians who actually pray for others. In every area of our lives, we need to become people of prayer.
Anyways, I need to get to bed. It was just a thought, but I think that if we take this upon our hearts, we will become much happier people. Prayer will soften us, and save others. It's time we stand out in this world as people who love the unloved.
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