I can’t get mad about yoga pants, you guys. I also can’t get
mad about Fifty Shades of Grey. Now, I can understand why my Christian friends
are posting blogs, or stating their opinions on why they won’t wear yoga pants,
or why they won’t see Fifty Shades. But me, well, I just can’t focus my energy
on those.
I know what some of you are thinking: “a good Christian girl
doesn’t wear tight pants and watch dirty movies.” Well, you’re half right. I
won’t go to Fifty Shades, because I refuse to pay good money to spend two hours
hiding under my chair, dying of embarrassment. Yoga pants—well, just leave my
yoga pants alone.
But here’s the real reason I refuse to get mad about yoga
pants and a movie: Because I feel that we as Christians are focusing on such
narrow, and (sorry!) silly issues instead of focusing on real, life or death
issues. You guys, in the words of Sven in Frozen “…we’ve got a real, actual problem here.”
Friends, every 3.6
seconds a person dies from starvation. The majority of those who die are under
five years old. This means, in the time it takes you to read this blog, roughly
40 people will die of hunger, and most of them will be babies and small children.
That is something to get mad about.
This year, over 300,000
women will die from issues related to childbirth. 99% of them will be in
developing countries, and 80% of those cases are preventable with proper
education, care, and training. That is something
to get mad about.
You guys, 783 million
people on planet earth don’t have access to clean
water, and 2.5 billion people
don’t have access to proper sanitation. That is something to get mad about.
Last, 2.9 million
newborn babies die each year from prematurity, delivery complications, and
infections. All things that can be prevented with proper care and antibiotics.
That is something to get mad about.
And God’s people are angry
over yoga pants and a trashy movie.
If you want to get mad, friends. Get mad. Get really, really, mad.
But don’t let Satan distract you from life or death issues
with trivial matters. I understand that modesty and purity from sexual sin are
important, but people. are. dying.
What if… what if
we took some of the energy we spend defending our opinions, and instead
defended God’s people? What if we used our voices and our time to help “the
least of these” the way Jesus commands us to?
Friends, one or two people can’t do this on their own, but if
Christ-followers united and used
their collective time, gifts, and energy, we could literally save lives. There
is no excuse for us, friends. The facts are right there for us to see. People
are dying and we’re worried about lycra pants and a crappy movie.
I just can’t be mad about those things, because 1,000 people died of starvation while I
wrote this blog.
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