daily java

Daily Java:

Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. (Colossians 3:2)

I am not a fan of modern culture. I hate most of what is on TV and even have trouble finding things to watch on Netflix. Half the time we turn the movie or program off half way through because it is just dumb. And I hate dumb stuff of any kind.

It is a fact that I am a prude. I know that and don’t mind. I do not like trash. I hear about stuff that everybody else seems to watch and I realize that I would not have it in my house. A lot of the reality shows (a genre I despise) are just stupid. They demean the people that are in them and debase the people watching. Some of the animated shows are just trash and I could go on but won’t.

Where is the Christian any different who watches this trash? How can the world look at you and say there is any difference in you and those who are unsaved?

I mean, I like movies as much as the next person, especially those which take place on other planets and have Arnold Schwarzenegger cutting people with his sword or Clint Eastwood shooting people. I am a fan of sci-fi and westerns and things like that. There are some things I love, like Monty Python and Zombie movies. But on the other hand, there are those which I will not watch because they become so profane, so filled with sex and the like. I turn them off. That doesn’t mean that I am better than everybody else, but it does mean that I have been set apart for something better.

How does a Christian watch Family Man or South Park without cringing? And if you cringe, why watch it? The more you watch the more it begins to make no difference. Shows about pawn shops and porn stars, motorcycle mechanics cursing at each other and filled with anger. What is the point? How is it that this edifies the child of God?

I am not some Pentecostal wacko advocating a removal from TV and movies. I still have a TV and watch movies and what shows on Netflix and YouTube I want to watch. But what I am advocating is sense in choosing what you watch. There are things that once seen cannot be unseen. The internet and the TV are full of those images. Why see them when all it will do is hurt you in your relationship with God? After all, you, as a Christian, are holy. Having discretion is not the same as being removed. It just means you are careful.

I think of the woman who said that all of the porn movies she had watched in her past before she came to Christ replayed themselves in her mind during communion. She would have given anything to not have seen them.

So what’s the point? Don’t do it. Turn off the TV. Sister Ella and I did and I think we are the better for it. There is no reason to fill our minds with trash.

You are welcome to disagree with me. But I think that if you look at what we as Christians are called to do, you will know it is right.

And don’t get me started on Christian clothing. Maybe I need to go take a pill.