1 Thess 5 reminds us we are different and calls us to be different. The world is rushing toward destruction, like a float party being swept along toward a waterfall. Like the legendary lemmings, the crowd "jumps" toward disaster.
I came across this video, adapted from an old Disney wildlife documentary about lemmings, mixed with the 70's rock classic, "Jump." It illustrates the insistant calls around us to "go ahead... come with us... jump!" So many voices today pull us to go along with the crowd, to go ahead and jump--to disaster.
A little background on the the Disney docu--apparently they had to buy the lemmings and import to the location. Then, the lemmings didn't want to "jump"--they had to herd them over the edge. Maybe that's a reminder that the media, although entertaining, is not always friendly...
1 Thes 5 calls believers, saved in Christ, to wake up and to watch out, for own sake and for others. Keep looking up for HIs coming, and keep looking out for yourself and others.
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3 comments:
Wow, what a great reminder that SO MUCH of what I am fed each day - by the media, by my culture, by peer pressure - is designed to manipulate and influence me. And rarely is it in my best interest. Can you say involuntary suicide? Let us be aware of the influences around us, so that we can sift and resist accordingly. Let us keep our eyes fixed on the author and perfecter of our faith.
I have a blog how abount why in the world would you show this I hope that it's not during service for the younger kids of this church I thinl that its really sad that wwe have to search the internet to find props for a serman why not do it the old way and do it straight from the book that God gave us.
Dear anonymous #2,
Thanks for your thoughts. No, I did not use this video in a sermon for a variety of reasons, nor was it aimed at youth. Actually, it was intended especially for people about my age who would remember that song from our high school days, when we first learned "how important" it seemed to follow the crowd.
Lemmings represent a cultural myth in their willingness to follow the crowd, even if its over a cliff. That illustrates something to us about humanity. Secondly, in this Disney film footage, the media (Disney) actually chased the lemmings over the cliff for their own purposes. Whoever put the rock song "Jump" to this footage captured how powerful secular media and music can be in leading the crowd of lost humanity over the cliff to their own destruction.
The following blog shows another video which I think illustrates the Christian's response. We are to rescue those at the brink of eternal destruction, like that man at the edge of Niagara Falls.
May God use us, by HIs grace, to resuce those rushing to certain destruction.
- Bob
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