Over the weekend I read an article in the news paper about another bombing somewhere over seas. This particular event killed 15 people and injured many others. What bothered me the most about reading it was how it just didn’t seem to phase me. It was another story about another bombing that killed less people than probably many of the other bombings that have happened around the world. Before I moved on to the next article I stopped and asked myself, “why are you so unaffected by this?” 15 people were now dead and yet I was so calloused because it is just nothing new anymore. News like this is no longer shocking. Between news and television we see death every day of our life. And its not just death its brutality that we allow ourselves to be exposed to.
Then I got on Foxnews.com and read and article this morning about a 17 year old in England who jumped to his death from a multi-story building after spectators egged him on making comments such as, “How far can you bounce?” and “Get on with it!”. After the young man jumped the spectators took pictures of the body.
This story is absolutely sickening! Yet in our world today death and brutality is entertainment. We are no longer able to separate reality from what happens on television or in the movies. To go even further we are no longer satisfied with the make believe. We as a culture now crave the next level of entertainment and that is reality. We no longer regard the sanctity of human life.
In the past few week I have become convicted of my own desensitization not just with violence and death but with immorality. My prayer is that God will restore innocence back into my life. I want to be offended again by the things that offend God.
Romans 1:18-32
“For the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about god is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchange the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four footed animals and crawling creatures.
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason god gave them over to degradign passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, adn in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts adn receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, withouth understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”
