From the sweet Twilight star's cheating scandal, and going nude, to the poppy Miley Cyrus slithering around like the new 80s Madonna. Parents must wonder what in the world is going on with the stars. Britney Spears going from sugar to spice by borrowing the boyfriend of a pregnant Moesha star to tearing up property and shaving her head. How can they let their children watch these stars and emulate their every behavior?
Why do beautiful sweet entertainer's lives eventually go downhill?
Well, one argument says that it only seems this way because they are int he public eye, and if everyone was in the public, our lives would play out the same way in the media. True to a certain extent.
Celebrities are humans and are no different from others. Why do we place them on such a high pedestal?
Humans always want an example to follow. Celebrities are seemingly beautiful people who cracked the code to success, and people want to know how to be successful and follow the lifestyles sometimes. Whether it is through religion or through other means, we all want to be greater in some way and need to see our goal before we can follow it.
Movie stars, musicians and sports players have been placed in front of our eyes everyday through the media. They seem to have the answer since they have the money, clothes, confidence, and we give them the glory. Yet, everday we see through their drug overdoses, bankruptcy, and immoral activities, they are just like us, trying to make it through this crazy world.
Some people sourly say that celebrities were always the way we see them end up, and the truth is coming out. Others say that it is only because they are in the public eye that it seems they do many bad things when it isn't that bad as what other people do in private. All true, but why is it in the entertainment business the majority of the people do not end up with happy lives? Why do we as a society continue to place regular people on a pedestal and try to follow their destructive ways which they glorify in their music and movie roles? It is good to see celebrities lives being exposed more because it demonstrates to children that if they follow the immoral acts of celebrities, no matter who you are, you will lead a life that ends in destruction.
Remember the account that God told Adam and Eve to obey His commandments in the beginning. He told them advice that is so profound that it could save the dying lost even in this day and age.Forget the debate about the fruit in the garden was not literal and symbolizes love, and that they weren't supposed to experience physical love until God blessed them in marriage.
Let's keep it simple. God gave them a commandment to wait upon His time when they could 'eat of the fruit'.
He gave Adam and Eve a choice in that commandment. If you follow my words, you unlock blessings of the earth, if you do not choose my way you receive curses. We obviously understand which path our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit chose. By choosing Satan's word to indulge in love before their time, humanity fell outside of God's realm under Satan's dominion. All from a certain ACTion of teenagers, the world has been a perpetual hell every since.
One person said the problems of the world can't be that simply answered. But it can. All problems can stem from the misuse of love. Even anger stems from someone inappropriately abusing love by not loving properly in someway.
Love has the power to bring blessing through its connection to God, or curses through its misuse.
We chose curses and we still choose to be cursed or blessed with every moment we make a decision.
Celebrities misfortunes demonstrate what happens when we make a chose without God as our center. When we choose to be with a person outside of marriage, steal husbands, sleep with many people, choose drugs as our enlightenment only, choose material and wealth to make us happy, we are harming not only other people, but God's heart. God abhors sin and he told us in the beginning it leads to destruction.Why are these things bad? Isn't physical love part of the creation, aren't we as God's children suppose to enjoy the fruits of God's creation? Yes, but these objects have become our only way to happiness forfeiting God completely as a source of our love. And love without God as the center is still love, but it is false.
How is being with a person who is promised to another (God sees single people as people waiting to mature for their intended spouse - which is one person), even if they are not married, a part of God's True Love?
Why do we follow in the footsteps of people who endure endless heartache over and over as the pass from one relationship and marriage to the other and believe this is the way we should live our lives to find true happiness? We should clearly see that beauty, money and love alone is not the only way to live. Celebrities too are looking for True Love as well.
Why would God make Adam and Eve wait to indulge in the pleasures that they were going to have anyway?It is like giving a gun or a diamond to a three-year old. You just don't do it. They don't understand the value or the destruction that can come by possessing these objects too soon.
In essence, God was telling Adam and Eve to wait until they were mature before He could bless them to enjoy the fruits of love.
So, as adults, it may be too late, but we finally realize substantially and heartistically what parents meant when they told us we were not mature enough to handle sex and must wait for marriage, and drugs are harmful.
The parents who are enforcing the rules of saving yourself for one person and during marriage sometimes themselves have a history of not waiting for marriage, cheating and drug abuse, and children follow the example of their parents. How can we enforce this to the next generation if we ourselves have trouble living by God's word?
This is hard because of hormones and our feelings of lust and love for the opposite sex is greater than any consequences or warnings and the heartache that sprout from our misdeeds. This was the problem with Adam and Eve, our first parents, who were just teenagers. No matter that God had warned them, they had indulged in premarital sex without God's blessing and we have perpetuated this generation after generation.
The sad part is that God's word judges even our thoughts because even though they are not actions, thoughts plant seeds that eventually become real in some way if not counterbalanced. If we perform in our mind sexual acts with our best friend's husband, the bible says then we have committed adultery even if we are not married ourselves.
No one is beyond this temptation. Me, you, your children, even the most faithful and devout have this the responsibility to subjugate the desires of our bodies and fight it everyday.
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Of course we should pray for our brothers and sisters in our communities and celebrities who can not overcome their struggles instead of just talking about their issues. If we don't talk about them and ignore them, as we see evident, it spreads wider until it is seen in our own homes. Our children are watching these stars in a different light. Many see these acts as okay as stars seemingly don't pay for for doing wrong - there are no consequences in young people's eyes, and are jaded by their beauty and money. It is important as parents we show that the path away from God no matter how it appears always ends in destruction.
Children must understand that God intended for us to live a life of peace and love and what seems commonplace and as an exciting life of the stars is far from peaceful. They must see that going to rehab, excessive behavior, multiple relationships, divorce etc. may seem fun, but it hurts God's heart.
Fortunately, God is behind the scenes working to help us clear up this mistake. No one is beyond the love of God. No one can go too far in the other direction that they can not return down the same path and start anew.
The first step is to educate about the reasons why we fight our evil mind and carnal desires. This battle of mind and body will end as we conquer everyday to strengthen our good God-given mind everyday. Just like us, our spiritual body and mind must eat. In the environment of today's society, we feed our evil mind and body more than our good mind, making our evil body stronger. Our ungodly mind becomes subject over the good activities we want to do.
Reading God's words of all religions, praying, acting in faith, and putting God's word and placing it into action daily is a way to strengthen our good mind and lead us back to God.
If the latest trend of celebrities going toward Eastern religions is truly part of their soul, we may see a new celebrity crop up in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it just seems to be a ploy for some, but hopefully, one day, a revolution of celebrities that live a life led by God in Hollywood will take over.
Why worry about people we do not know? Because whether we like it or not, our children and society's next generation of leaders follow the lifestyles of celebrity materialism without thinking about it and it is undeniably not the only cause but is definitely a part of the slow degeneration of America's values.
Simply turning off the television does not work as it has become part of our culture, our lives are inundated with the culture of media no matter how religious we are. There needs to be a revolution of True Love in the industry or the current trend we will continue. The trend of other countries despising America's trashy ways will increase. Can we blame them?
One day absolutely, God's way will be more popular than the materialistic satanic way of life - hopefully in our lifetime. God deserves to be an idol, don't you think?
Photos courtesy of MSN entertainment news.
This message is based on the Divine Principle which uses the study of the bible as its basis.
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