Thought Thursday’s is the place where I share some earth moving concept, or just a funny idea that bounced around in my head, or I ask some question that moves the blogosphere to shout and throw things.
Today’s thought is a “wondering” I’ve had for quite some time. Here is today’s thought: why is it that we end up doing things that we don’t want to do? We hate doing it, we feel horrible/frustrated/angry/sad (whatever the emotion is) when we’re done – and we know we’ll feel it before we do it – yet we still do the thing.
Here is this week’s “provocatively relevant” question: Why do we do it? Why do we do the thing we hate?
This is how I see it. You are fighting the two natures, or laws. You have the flesh and you have the spirit. Whenever you are faced with the decision to choose the flesh or the spirit the deciding factor is how many times have you choosen the flesh vs the spirit? If its “normal” to choose the flesh then sadly the feeling afterwards is “normal” too. I used to think of it as a casuality of war, but the more casualities you have the more you will start loosing the war. God help us to start taking some fleshly casualities from the eniemy!
P.O.D. has an intense song/video on this subject. I did an interview with them and asked about it. They said this video was too much darkness for the church, and too much light for MTV… but they don’t care, because it’s Truth. I was WAY impressed with their understanding of spiritual warfare and their involvement in attempting to take light in to darkened places.
“If you could see our spirits, we’ve got a broken arm, an ankle brace, and are in a wheelchair… but… we’re battle ready… Most of the church doesn’t understand us… we aren’t choir boys, that’s for sure.”
“If something continually takes your eyes off of who God is and what He has for you, I consider that an addiction.”
“This video was genious, it was artsy, it was controversial, and we knew that MTV probably wouldn’t play it… but it makes you think. You can’t address a word like “addiction” and then go and make a bubblegum video. It might step on some peoples toes, it might offend you, but… oh well, mr. perfect, go live in your perfect little world then. In the mean time, someone who’s stuck in addiction is watching it and knows exactly what it’s talkin’ about.”
“It does make your stomach turn when you watch it. It SHOULD make you sick. That’s the whole point. But nobody wants to see ugliness bro, especially when it’s their own…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlV2NsPmco