Fame

John 17:10b: And glory has come to me (Jesus) through them (His Disciples).

The word for glory in the original Greek language "doxa" can mean glory, majesty, or fame. Lets use the translation fame for this blog.

Jesus is praying to God the Father in this chapter and during this prayer he makes several statements about fame and being made famous. Jesus is saying that fame has come to him through his disciples. In my recent blog I referred to the fact that as Christ followers Jesus should be our "celebrity." We should seek to glorify him or make him famous.

We should not glorify (make famous) our selfs, our ministries, our pastors and church leaders, rather Christ and Christ alone.

If Christ is lifted up (made famous) he will draw men to himself.

Celebrity Death

Iran is almost in civil war, North Korea may blast us off the map at any time, the economy sucks, and America's top news story, The Death of Micheal Jackson.

Before I go any further I want to say that I respect the family of Micheal Jackson and I am familiar with losing people close to me. This blog is not an attack on them or the deceased in question, rather it is a rant about the state of America's mentality and media.

I was sitting in a Japanese steakhouse last night enjoying a ginger dressing salad and waiting on a sushi combo platter to come my way when a couple walked through the door and announced the death of Micheal Jackson. The lady behind me gasped in shock and began crying.

I was wondering if the lady behind me was related to him, maybe a distant cousin. She wasn't. It surprises me to see someone cry for someone they do not know. Maybe I am a little cold-hearted or insensitive but I believe that there is something wrong with caring so much about a person that I have never met.

When I was a kid a celebrity hero of mine the late/great Chris Farley died of a drug related massive heart-attack. I was sad but it was not like losing someone close to me.

In America we put people on pedestals, we love to talk about people we don't know, and turn them into some sort of superhuman demi-gods. We have seen the effects of this plague with such celebrities as Elvis Presley, Brittany Spears, Heath Ledger, and now Micheal Jackson. Elvis died of and over-dose, Brittany shaved her head and went crazy, Heath died of and OD and Micheal Jackson may have OD'd on pain meds. All of these people are byproducts of fame gone wrong.

Micheal's dad got him into show biz when he was just a child. It corrupted his mind causing him to marry and divorce, to somehow change his skin color, supposedly molest children, and dangle a baby by its foot over a balcony. Jackson did not contribute anything good to society except some cool songs to listen and dance to.

The sad thing about his death is that he never got to live a normal life. That he was to confused to know the healing power and love of Jesus Christ, and that his end came without truly finding peace.

America wake up! No one is immortal, we all return to the dust in which we came from. We all have that in common, therefore, no one is worth putting as higher than the other. We all have to answer to our creator for the things we did or did not do in this life and Michel is now standing in the presence of the only one that is worthy of celebrity status, Jesus Christ. Michel died in vain, Christ died for humanity.

God is trying to get your attention

If you are a Christian, the presence of Christ dwells within you and if you are not a Christian Jesus Christ is constantly trying to get your attention.

Romans 1:20 says, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

Creation is not God himself as Wicca, or Native American religion may tell you, creation is just that; creation. Can you look at the stars and not think about the reality of infinity? Can you look at the ocean and believe that it got here on it's own? Can you look yourself in the mirror then under a microscope and fathom all of the parts of the human body from head to toe, from the brain to the colon and not think that there is an intelligent designer for it all?

God is trying to get your attention.

When you look at all the animals of the world do you see evolution or do you see imagination?

When you see a bolt of lighting do you see liquid and ice particles colliding, or a brilliant light show?

God is trying to get your attention.