I Wonder? – Super Bowel Ad

We watched the Super Bowl. I hadn’t watched football for sometime, not since I started learning about brain injuries to players – I haven’t missed football. This was the first college bowl season that I didn’t watch even one bowl game that I can remember.

We were with friends who were watching the game, left at halftime, and when we got home I turned the game on.

There was a pornographic ad that was shown in the second half – pornographic to the mind – there was no way the viewer could have seen it coming. I was shocked.

And I wondered about church Super Bowl events, and I wondered if anyone stopped the game for a few minutes and critiqued the disgusting ad. I wondered if any adults in youth groups that were watching the game stopped the game to discuss the pornographic ad. Or did everyone act as if it didn’t happen?

We do that don’t we? We act as if we aren’t living in a cesspool. We act as if holiness is outdated, as if purity is something to be ashamed of, as if it is perfectly acceptable to sprinkle rat poison on our pizza. We rationalize away our entertainment habits and our introduction of filth into our homes and churches and communities.

Too strong you think? Jesus Christ died, taking our sins upon Himself, becoming sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians Chapter 5); no…not too strong…Christ died for us…He loves us…do we not love Him enough to leave the filth alone?

Our Father says to us, “Be holy as I am holy.” Let us teach our children and young people the beauty of holiness; let us remind one another of God’s holiness, let us encourage each other to live in God’s holiness. We are to be God’s living, walking, talking, breathing sanctuary – and His sanctuary is holy.