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Blogging: A bloggers thoughts

Blogging... I've been a blogger now for almost two years. It's the same years when I finally got to know Jesus. And as I look back in my blog it was sort of a chronicle of my Christian walk. I kind of taken it for granted lately.. tsk2x... No updates and no more write ups. It's not that I don't have anything to write about. Actually, I just have a lot in my mind to write about. Busy days. So I'm gonna write something a bit informal...What's on my mind?

"Glamorized sin and Sweetening the Enemy"
I have my mistakes. And one of it is not just 'glimpsing' but even watching movies that promote this kind of mentality or should I say 'poison'. Sure, they look harmless but as I pray about it God revealed something to me: Satan is not the ugly, gruesome picture we used to see in the Bible. But usually he's almost every character in shows we see in our televisions and in the internet. My example would be this show:
The new look for Beauty and the Beast. When you hear the word 'beast', what comes up to your mind? Before it might be the hairy, big toothed and ugly savage like the old classic cartoon in Disney. But here, they portrayed him as a hunky, hot (really hot!), handsome and even gentle and capable of loving someone, no trace of hairiness (except those handsome facial hair) and big tooth. He's just a monster or turns into the beast when he loses self-control. Weew..

And this was God's revelation to me: Today, sin is not shown as the main reason of our eternal separation or the consuming emptiness of sin but it is portrayed as 'good, sweet, liberating or glamorized sin'. Let's say I made the wrong decision of watching this show and even following it. As a Christian and a Set-apart woman I should not dabble in darkness and yes this show promotes that. It promotes secrecy (a hunky guy stalking you since you were young is ok since he is hot), their lovestory seemed romantic and exciting...but here's the catch; all is in secret. Tsk2x..
Proverbs 20: 17: "
17 Stolen bread tastes sweet,
    but it turns to gravel in the mouth."
Everything done is secret is not going to last. Yeah it might taste sweet at first but in the end it's just useless and even pointless. And the sad thin about this? I don't just see it in this show but I see it here, in the university, in my friends life and even in my own life before I got to know Christ. It's not just this show. Movies that portray evil as a Sparkling, handsome and caring vampire. The last time I saw the show I was shocked that the story started to be "heating up" if you know what I mean. So I stopped watching. I don't want to compromise any more and the truth is, I should not have watched it. Tsk2x I'm really regretting it now...


  

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