While watching TV this weekend during a football game, I saw a promo for the Super Bowl halftime show that will feature "The Who." The commercial had clips of the band performing with guitarist Pete Townshend sliding on his knees. Then the band is shown smashing their equipment on stage: the drums were torn apart, and the neck of the guitar was shoved into an amp speaker. I can only describe their actions as the overall destruction of their expensive, quality equipment they just used to play songs that made them a famous household name. Ironic, I thought. To buy quality gear and then destroy it just doesn't make much sense, even if the fans do eat it up.
Watching the band tear everything apart reminded me of other rock groups I've seen do the same. Jimi Hendrix squirted fuel on his guitar and set it on fire, and Marilyn Manson trashed the stage using a mic stand as a club. I don't know what drives a person to break perfectly good things. But the way these rock stars use and abuse their equipment is the same way the devil destroys those who becomes his tools. He will deceive and use whoever will respond to his manipulation. Then suddenly Satan will break without remedy those who have become his slaves. You see, a rock star has money to buy new guitars and amps. Companies even sponsor them to exclusively use their gear. Smashing and breaking is what rock stars are known to do, and Satan does the same. John 10:10 sums up the intentions of Satan contrasted with Jesus Christ: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
We have the opportunity to be clay molded by the hands of the good Potter or an instrument in the hands of the enemy of our souls. Those who trust in Jesus Christ have the glory of God in an earthen vessel, a body fashioned from the dust of the ground so the credit will go to God, not us. What a tragedy that rock stars, construction workers, doctors, teachers, and people from all walks of life choose be instruments of iniquity for the temporary praises of men! Praise God that He can heal and restore even those who for their whole lives have been in the clutches of the devil. In a moment everything can change and be made new. It is not easy being made a new creation and setting your soul at war with the carnal desires of the flesh, but there is nothing more rewarding and satisfying.
What is impossible with man is possible with God. In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and no one could put him back together again, yet God heals broken hearts and lives. Mankind has not only fallen but has intentionally run away and rebelled from the salvation, healing, and forgivness offered by Jesus Christ. God pursues us to restore because He loves sinners and is able. Praise Him!
Watching the band tear everything apart reminded me of other rock groups I've seen do the same. Jimi Hendrix squirted fuel on his guitar and set it on fire, and Marilyn Manson trashed the stage using a mic stand as a club. I don't know what drives a person to break perfectly good things. But the way these rock stars use and abuse their equipment is the same way the devil destroys those who becomes his tools. He will deceive and use whoever will respond to his manipulation. Then suddenly Satan will break without remedy those who have become his slaves. You see, a rock star has money to buy new guitars and amps. Companies even sponsor them to exclusively use their gear. Smashing and breaking is what rock stars are known to do, and Satan does the same. John 10:10 sums up the intentions of Satan contrasted with Jesus Christ: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
We have the opportunity to be clay molded by the hands of the good Potter or an instrument in the hands of the enemy of our souls. Those who trust in Jesus Christ have the glory of God in an earthen vessel, a body fashioned from the dust of the ground so the credit will go to God, not us. What a tragedy that rock stars, construction workers, doctors, teachers, and people from all walks of life choose be instruments of iniquity for the temporary praises of men! Praise God that He can heal and restore even those who for their whole lives have been in the clutches of the devil. In a moment everything can change and be made new. It is not easy being made a new creation and setting your soul at war with the carnal desires of the flesh, but there is nothing more rewarding and satisfying.
What is impossible with man is possible with God. In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and no one could put him back together again, yet God heals broken hearts and lives. Mankind has not only fallen but has intentionally run away and rebelled from the salvation, healing, and forgivness offered by Jesus Christ. God pursues us to restore because He loves sinners and is able. Praise Him!
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