Touch My Body
I was waiting for the hospital to give us our son back after his circumcision when we were watching Live with Regis & Kelly. Mariah Carey was their guest & I think she's had more #1 hits than any other solo artist in recording history. I don't remember the exact exchange, but Regis asks her something along the lines of, "what's your secret?"
Mariah's latest hit is called Touch My Body. Being an XM radio subscriber, it's impossible not to hear it all over the airwaves. Knowing that her latest song was about frivolous sexual activity, her answer to Regis stunned me. She said in response to her secret something like, "I look at every accomplishment as a gift from God. I don't look at it like it's me, I pray to do what I do & to write songs..."
Of course, I looked at my wife like, "did you hear that? What is wrong with her? Yeah, I'm sure God was equally inspiring you as you wrote Touch My Body as He was Paul when he wrote his letter to the Romans."
2o seconds passed. Then the Holy Spirit rebuked & taught me in the silence of my heart.
He was saying, "She doesn't know me - she hasn't been reborn, of course she's going to say inconsistent and false things about me in ignorance. But you - you have been reborn & you know better & yet you sometimes enjoy the very things in your thoughts that she is singing about. You know to turn your eyes the other way sometimes, & yet you don't. The only difference between her & you is that God chose to reveal Himself to you when you were hell-bound & yet you continue to sin. A lost person is not capable of being godly. If anything, your heart should break for her. If anything, you are the hypocrite."
Like the Holy Spirit already said through Paul once, "For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" - 1 Corinthians 4:7
Mariah's latest hit is called Touch My Body. Being an XM radio subscriber, it's impossible not to hear it all over the airwaves. Knowing that her latest song was about frivolous sexual activity, her answer to Regis stunned me. She said in response to her secret something like, "I look at every accomplishment as a gift from God. I don't look at it like it's me, I pray to do what I do & to write songs..."
Of course, I looked at my wife like, "did you hear that? What is wrong with her? Yeah, I'm sure God was equally inspiring you as you wrote Touch My Body as He was Paul when he wrote his letter to the Romans."
2o seconds passed. Then the Holy Spirit rebuked & taught me in the silence of my heart.
He was saying, "She doesn't know me - she hasn't been reborn, of course she's going to say inconsistent and false things about me in ignorance. But you - you have been reborn & you know better & yet you sometimes enjoy the very things in your thoughts that she is singing about. You know to turn your eyes the other way sometimes, & yet you don't. The only difference between her & you is that God chose to reveal Himself to you when you were hell-bound & yet you continue to sin. A lost person is not capable of being godly. If anything, your heart should break for her. If anything, you are the hypocrite."
Like the Holy Spirit already said through Paul once, "For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" - 1 Corinthians 4:7
