23 December 2010

When you're bored this is what happens...

Its hard for me to admit to this but I was bored on the internet today and so I started looking at random stuff, like "What Celebrities Look Like Without Make-Up" and "Miley Cyrus' 6 Most Embarrassing Moments".
I'm not usually the kind of person who does this stuff unless I'm REALLY bored, but I stumbled on some pictures of Miley Cyrus smoking a bong and it just got me thinking "What the heck is wrong with the world today?" and wondering why she might be doing this sort of thing.
I'm only disturbed by the video of Miley getting high and swearing because as someone in the public spotlight, and who has proclaimed herself to be a follower of Jesus, I don't understand how she would allow herself to be videotaped behaving in this way.
Its really sad. She is still pretty young, only 18 after all. When I was 18 I wasn't much better, I can admit to that. I was probably a whole lot worse than she is, but she is in the public eye and she is going to get absolutely destroyed by the media and by angry parental backlash. Its really sad.
I wasn't looking for this information when I was wasting time on the internet today, yet this is what I found.
I'm unsure of how everyone is going to react to this, probably the same way they've been reacting to other things she has done (racy photographs, "pole dancing" etc).
But overall, all this is telling me is that it doesn't matter what your beliefs are, in our society there is so much pressure to conform to what everyone else is doing that its really hard not to. Since people are watching Miley's every move and waiting for her to screw up, these things are always going to come out in the media.
The internet is really scary sometimes.
People shouldn't totally blame Miley for this, maybe we should all just look at the society we're living in and blame it on that. Yes, she should've been more careful if she was going to be videotaped smoking a bong, but maybe she should ask herself: Would Jesus want me to smoke a bong? I don't think He would want that, but I'm only going off what I've read in the Bible here.
As Christians, we need to be accountable for our actions and show people what a life with God really looks like, I think its way too easy for us to forget that sometimes.
Lucky for us God is patient and forgiving, so we just have to continue to work on it. I know Miley will never read this, but I suppose it can apply to when "average" people screw up too. After all, we're all the same in God's eyes.

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