This year's Grammy awards show reached new depths. What was held high and applauded?
Katy Perry sang a song about love, but her goth stage was set to give another impression with its witchy and Satanic look. LINK Ms. Perry wore a rather prominent cross on her chest while taunting the flames of hell/darkness with horned creatures and a horsehead with red eyes. The song lyric gave warning to her "would-be" lover to treat her right. But it sure seemed more like a commercial for the dark side as she told him if he did her wrong, she was capable of anything. This beautiful young woman has come a long way from her first gospel album.
When Jay-Z accepted an award, he had charming remarks about giving his son a new sippy cup. But then imagine that son watching his parents open the Grammys.
Jay-Z and Beyonce are a winsome couple with amazing talent. They had a national audience and could have had a class act.
But Jay-Z objectified his wife; he didn't show how a man protects and cherishes his wife. And as Beyonce bent over in a raunchy thong with her booty writhing in our faces, she showed no consideration for men who have a hard time dealing with the eyegate. If lyrics have to be beeped, can they truly be edifying? Can this nasty song ("Drunk in Love") be good stewardship of the gifts this couple has generously been given?
Macklemore illustrated pantheology (embracing all gods) when he said... "Whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one." Is that sound theology?
God would disagree with the first part because over and over He describes Himself as the one true God over all the little gods of the world. So it matters A LOT which God you believe.
And our origins? Yes, in a general sense God created us all. But in a specific sense, God the Father has a special covenant with ones He has regenerated, adopted, and made heaven-bound. So perhaps Macklemore isn't a thought leader in theology.
Chaplain (and Queen) Latifah spoke wedding vows and Madonna sang "Open Your Heart". Then as the stained glass backdrop was lowered, the participants in effect were saying "we will define church and marriage".
Thirty-three couples (some same sex) were actually married, ecstatically thinking they had carried the day. But the Lord didn't blink when these people led the way off THE path. And when they stand before the Judge one day, they will cower to realize how far into the weeds they went...and will regret deeply that they used their gifting for mocking the sacred.
Perhaps you are thinking "No big deal, it's the GRAMMYS. They're always outrageous, but it doesn't affect me." No? It's a slow drip of getting used to deviancy...forgetting how/when to blush...the coarsening of our daily lives...enlarging and accelerating judgment. It's not good for us. Instead, put in good seeds that the Lord can water.
C.S. Lewis said we are half-hearted creatures who fool about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us...like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea...we're far too easily pleased.
The Grammys remind us that the earthly prize is not the prize we're after.
Just another reason I don't watch Hollywood awards shows. I applaud Natalie Grant for walking out early!
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