Summer of Celebrity Divorce
I was recently interviewed about what they dub the “Summer of Celebrity Divorces”, a Wall Street Jounral article.
I am often questioned about divorces as if I’m an expert (bless their heart!).
Why are there so many divorces, and especially amongst celebrities?
It’s simple.
Because people are focusing on themselves instead of God.
BIG TIP: If you can’t look beyond SELF culture, your marriage will fail.
The answer to this broken world (with broken marriages) is JESUS. I am tired of tip-toeing around the truth. Jesus is the truth. The secret to marriage is to deny yourself, and pick up your cross.
Couples who understand this never divorce – in this city, there are ZERO divorces.
Broken World
Everywhere I look, humanity is beyond broken. Our world is beyond warped at this point.
2 weeks ago I discovered the darkness of commercial gestational surrogacy, and how surrogate mothers have basically no rights.
This week, a man got surgery to look like a dog.
I also learned about “embryo health scores” a practice where people create lots of embryos, score them, pick the best and kill the rest. Eugenics!
So why do we live in such a broken world?
Self Culture is the Fall in Genesis 3
The common theme in all of this nonsense is “self”.
Social media is shameless self-promotion (hey I do it too, this blog post is shameless!).
But it doesn’t just stop there. When people aren’t performing for others to see, they have completely lost their own identity.
Our world is plagued by sin, brought forth by Eve when she turned her focus from God to HERSELF.
Satan isn’t a dummy. Obviously it’s too difficult to get souls to turn away from the beauty of almight God to Satan’s ugly darkness. So, Satan tricked Eve.
Did God Really Say?
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The Fall Because of Self
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Marriages Fail Today Because of Selfie Culture
Deny yourself and take up your cross.
Identity Matters, and Your Identity MUST be Rooted in Christ
Our world is ever-changing. Our careers, where we live, what we like – everything changes.
You know who never changes? Jesus. He is the same today, yesterday and forever. Hebrews 13:8
First, get to know God. God will then tell you who you are.
If You Want Your Marriage to Work, Reject Hollywood Marriages
Hollywood is fake. Hollywood marriages are fake. Reject Hollywood, and culture.
Divorce won’t solve your problems.
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