foolishness.

Hilarious. Every single twitter feed, facebook status, or blog in the past two days has centered around KanYe's actions at the MTV Video Music Awards. And all I have to say is this: Wow. This is the biggest news of the current hour? An interruption in a meaningless awards show? The enemy's done a great job of distracting us, eh?

John himself said "for the world and it's desires will pass away," and this latest "event" just continually reveals the fallen, distracted, self-absorbed state of the world. I don't really care either way about KanYe, he's a talented individual, but of course, he has his obvious faults. But I think really one has to look past the man, past the perceived slight, to see what speaks louder than a man with a mic: We've all been deceived, consumed by a celebrity syndrome. A tabloid culture of pop, pomp, and circumstances that have absolutely no real meaning, other than to lead us further and further away from the truth. The way, the truth, and the life.

Isaiah 26 says "your name and your renown are the desire of my heart." Jesus has placed in each one of us a desire for His name and renown to be expanded and made known across this earth, but sin has twisted it and changed the focus from the Savior to self, from the Creator to creation, and from Christ to kanYe. Therefore, what has become "natural" for this world is not a fixation on the God of all creation, the God whose appearance is like that of inapproachable light and of blazing fire, but on ourselves. I mean, it's an easy digression when you think about the fact that we're made in His image, yet He is unseen and we are seen. Sin has brought us to a lowly place, where we look at our form as the best form. And that's how we're attracted to worship other people. Especially those who are talented, good looking, and prosperous.

God has made us to be people attracted to glory. The problem is, we have ascribed glory to people instead of God, and now we've exchanged it for something that does not profit (Jer. 2:11). We feast on MTV, TMZ, Perez Hilton, and other fodder and we expect those things not just to entertain us, but also to teach us. We expect the Brad Pitts, the KanYes, and the pop stars of society to be the model citizens, because when you give glory to something, you expect something in return. We give adoration and glory to celebrities and then we expect them to act like the gods we have made them to be, when in reality they cannot save, they cannot lead, they cannot provide, and they cannot hold the weight to which we have placed on them. Eventually it consumes and destroys these people, and us, in our Pharisaic, high-and-mighty states then just move on to the next teen pop star, the next big thing, the next talented individual that we can glorify, idolize, and then destroy when their character faults cannot hold the responsibility and glory we've given them.

The things we desire only reveal our destination. The things that we deem worthy in the temporal declare what we deem worthy in the spiritual. We were made to worship, made to give glory, but not unto the celebrities and high figures here on Earth, but instead the God of heaven and Earth, the uncreated one, the Rock eternal, the one of splendor and majesty, wrapped in light as if it were a garment.... He's got more going for Him than any celebrity in Hollywood or elsewhere.

Isaiah 42:8 - I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Exodus 20:3-6 - You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

We have to wake up out of this celebrity syndrome... out of this meaningless fixation, and become enraptured with the one worthy of it.

Instead of wasting hours and emotions on MTV.