So many seem to adore the opportunity to openly describe and boast of their endless sexual escapades, their “bodycounts,” and their promiscuous, if not outright pornographic presence online.
I call the phenomenon the “Bodycount Cult.”
The massive, debaucherous chorus of voices singing praise to their utterly immoral and blatantly hedonistic lifestyles has reached a crescendo in our society and culture.
It’s almost as though they think that if they can get even a single nod of semi-approval during their descriptions and boastings, they’ve justified the tragic, toxic, and undeniably catastrophic lifestyles of aforementioned immorality and hedonism.
But I certainly don’t think that these are even remotely genuine attempts at justification.
Rather, I believe that this is a confidently-cloaked yet desperately-clawing effort to drag others into apathetic tolerance (at the very least) or full-blown acceptance (at best) of the way they’re living. It’s a shallow try to fill a gaping, hallow hole in one’s heart that lacks purpose, direction, will, and saddest of all: love and acceptance.
I will not mock or show disdain towards these individuals. My heart breaks for them; in the throes of rampant sin, they need Jesus more than they could possibly know.
And to these individuals masquerading as modern day gods and goddesses of beauty and pleasure: I don’t know what particular pain, trauma, failure, or atrocious influence caused the cavernous void in your soul pleading to be filled with something, anything, that might give you a false and melancholy sense of purpose.
But I do know this:
“The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
God wants you to repent. He wants you to accept Christ as Savior and gain eternal salvation.
Why?
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Because He loves you. He loved you in the womb; He loves you to this day, even this very moment, no matter how far down you feel you may have fallen. He literally DIED ON THE CROSS for you, HIS BLOOD SHED for the forgiveness of your sins.
Trust me when I say that there’s not a drink, a drug, a party, a club, a rave, or a sex-charged night with the single most attractive individual you’ve ever laid eyes on that could possibly compare to the fullness and freedom that comes with accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
When those chains of sin explode off your flesh and that dark void within is finally filled with the love and light of God Himself, you’ll know EXACTLY what the pure joy of fullness and freedom in Christ feels like.
And I assure you: you’ll never want to go back to the darkness.
Dear brothers and sisters of the Bodycount Cult:
Repent of your sins and leave the lifestyle of immorality, hedonism, and filth behind.
Believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and accept Him as Savior.
Be filled with the fullness of God, embrace the freedom in Christ, and be at peace knowing that eternal salvation is yours.
Launching prayers skyward for all of you tonight. God’s love, God's grace, and God bless.
-Schindler
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