Have you ever noticed how people obsess about famous people?
From Angelina Jolie being a 'hero' and incredibly publicized for getting a preventative surgery, to reality TV shows super-publicizing the Kardashian's lives, there is no end to the options. If you have digital television, you can watch hundreds (thousands) of tv shows, reality, competitions,and people 'fulfilling' their dreams, all in the name of money.
Social networking, internet, and the media have mega-sized this. Magazines at every store at every aisle. A person can now 'follow' or 'subscribe' to mulitple outlets of information on their favorite people on the internet.
We want to be like them. We want their lifestyles, their clothes, their cars, their money, their bodies, their sex. We want to dance like them, act like them, have noses and lips like them. We crave new information about them, we wait for the updates.
They are our standard. We become "star struck" by them. They seduce us with their words, bodies, their money, and abilities.
It's just like the Greek gods and goddesses and their mythology. Their narcissistic lives, driven by their human desire. normal people becoming like them with 'connections' to them.
Do normal people worship them? Is this worshipping I think so.
Where is the majority of our time spent? Reading, focusing on the word of God? Building relationships with others to show them Christ? Where, instead, is our attention and thoughts focused? that CD coming out. That next update. The three word conversations that happen on twitter.
Whether positive, or negative, so many Americans, even many or maybe most Christians have their weaknesses.
Media is a great way to spread the gospel, exchange encouragement and uplifting information, but it also pulls people away from God. In most situations of media, I find this to be true.
I'm frustrated with how easy it is to be pulled into following celebrities. We have our excuses. "I look up to them." "They are great actors/tresses." "I want to see who wins/what they do next/what they are like as a real person."
What about what God wants, following God's word, listening to God's call and direction in our lives?
Don't let the word of God become irrelevant because you are "living in the now". Let Christ be your now, and always.
