This has been circulating for quite some time and I'm sure all the blogs out there have something to say about it. I've read a few of them that were inspiring for this post. But I have my own voice.
50 Shades of Grey...
Now that I got that out there, let me begin.
I personally don't know much about this book or movie at all. Never read it and never cared to look at it at a bookstore, and I'm an avid reader, love bookstores. I think I've finished more books now that I'm a mom than I ever have pre-baby, it's kind of strange actually.
So the bottom line for Christian women is... this is porn. There are a lot of women out there who are Christian women, going to see this movie. Why? I mean really, why? I asked my husband if he would ever want to see the movie, and he said he had absolutely no desire to see any of that stuff, and I believe him. Even just going with your friends, why? I just don't understand. Does it make you feel good to watch something like that? Why wouldn't you go home to your husbands and literally feel good about being with your husband?
I know some women that have said, "I need some new tricks", or "It might help our love life to watch it." No. It's not going to help anything. It's actually going to hurt your marriage. If you go with your husbands, you are basically saying it's okay and good to watch porn. It's never good. Don't kid yourselves, and give in to this repulsive behavior. Sex was never meant for all the things it has become. It was never meant for someone to want to feel like it's okay to have control over you or the situation. I'm going to be honest about my opinion on porn, it's demonic. I feel like it creates a dark cloud over your home when you give in to it. When I see all the stuff about this movie and book and I'm forced to picture it in my mind, I always picture Satan surrounded by gross, perverse women in hell. That's just how I feel about it. In college or high school when I wasn't so spiritually mature, I probably would've said yea it's cool, let's go check it out. That's not me today. I would never want my children to feel like they have to submit to someone like that just to be in a relationship, or even think anything like that is okay. No way. It will never be in my home.
When you hear people say, "I have demons", what comes to your mind? A dark secret? Or just something they want to change? This is real to me. Satan appears to us in many different ways (or shades), whether we want to believe it or not. I feel he appears to us on the tv screen more than any other place. In images, symbols, sexual implications. Satan has his hand in all things media related. Hence why I try to stay off social media as much as possible. Not just for me though, for my family. I want my son to know there is more to life than technology. It will get you in trouble somehow, someday. Our world today is so perverse we can't even see it anymore. We are really far gone. In the book of Revelation, we don't have a huge impact in the end. What does that say? Will our country even be standing? Will there even be an America left?
I just want you to take the time to soak in everything I've talked about, and really understand that anyone who tells you this is okay to watch and read, it's really not. Please don't give in to this.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. -Ephesians 5:25-30 NIV
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