The Stand

Will You make The Stand?

I get confused about the media and songs these days. The people that get payed the most are rappers that rap about drug deals, sex, getting drunk, taking advantage of girls that are drunk… all that crud that the music media is trying to get in our heads these days, what on earth??? How come they don’t get sent to jail for singing about sick things like this?? NOT ONLY do they NOT get sent to jail, but they get paid the big bucks, people make them their idols!!! How come the people that are acting in the media and produce movies that talk about things such as these and don’t get sent to jail? What MTV shows on television, things that are said on there, things that are done DO have a BIG influence on those that watch it!

One big thing that media makes teens think is “okay” or even “COOL to do” is sex before marriage. It’s “fun”, I like him/her, she/he is cute/hott. As long as it’s “safe” and I don’t get pregnant, or I don’t get her pregnant right? That’s what they’re feeding into our bodies, things that go AGAINST the rules and principles that God had SET before the beginning of time. They’re RUINING our generation, and it is up to US to make the difference!!!!

Sure, it talks about what reality is like, but man, they keep feeding these things to us. As Christians, we watch it, because everyone else watches it. Because it has a good story line. We do NOT realize how it slowly seeps into our heads. Satan has his ways of making us think certain things. Do we realize and look into what it’s teaching people our age these days? Do we look at what’s being subconsciously fed into our minds? NO, we don’t! We can’t be a reed that sways in the wind, we, as Christians, can’t be swayed around like a little plant in the wind when we see or hear something popular, ESPECIALLY if it’s against what we believe… We’re into this mindset that’s kinda like, well, everyone else is doing it so it must be okay. It’s not that big of a deal, it’s JUST TV, it’s JUST MUSIC. JUST TV is WRONG! JUST MUSIC is WRONG! People UNDERESTIMATE the influence of the media on themselves.

I will be honest with you. MTV has had a BIG PART of what I think now, what I think is okay. When IT ISN’T. I am a victim in all of this. But I am standing, and I am battling, and God WILL make me VICTORIOUS and free me from all this CRUD that the media has put into my mind. All the secular things that are a part of what mold me today. It molds the way I think, the things I say, the things that I think are acceptable. So don’t tell me media doesn’t influence the way you think, and what you do. IT HAS A HUGE PART.

We have to STAND STRONG IN OUR FAITH! STAND OUT among the crowd! STAND UP for what we believe in! Who cares about what others think about us? God gave us a voice! WHAT are we using it for?? ARE WE USING IT FOR HIM? ARE WE USING IT FOR HIS GLORY? OR ARE WE JUST TALKING AND WASTING OUR VOICE???

WHAT are we using the TALENTS that He gave us for? Are we using THOSE for Him? OR are we turning people OFF to Christianity with what we say, with our actions, with what we do, with the kinds of people we follow instead of lead, with how easily we are pressured into doing something, with how easily the media can sway us into thinking something. Am I making sense or am I just blabbering?

WILL YOU STAND FOR what the media puts in the minds of YOUR generation??? WILL YOU STAND FOR THAT??? WILL YOU LET THIS GENERATION ROT AWAY, WHILE YOU STAND THERE WATCHING IT HAPPEN, INSTEAD OF BEING THAT ONE VOICE THAT CAN CHANGE IT??? Don’t think one voice can’t be a difference. Many people may tell you, “Oh, you’re just another voice. You won’t be able to do much.” But WHAT IF, the people that are told that they’re just “another voice” DO stand up irregardless of what they’ve been told, what if ALL OF THOSE “just another voices” stood up. You’d have a lot of them wouldn’t you? YEAH! Therefore, You wouldn’t JUST BE another voice. You’d be ONE IN MANY, which THEREFORE, COULD BRING CHANGE!!!

WE HAVE A CHANCE TO INFLUENCE THE MEDIA. Even if it’s just ONE, there are many people that are willing to be that one, so You won’t be the only one. If you make that move in faith, God will use it! He will use it for His glory!!! The person who speaks the loudest wins!!

So I will ask once again.

Will You make THE STAND? The stand that could change the world.