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Watch this popular video below and see if you can tell me what’s wrong in this video.

At first glance it looks like a fun video.  People are dancing and having a good time.  The mood is a mood of celebration.  This happened in St. Paul, Minnesota.

But as the video plays and the dancing fools make their way down aisle you can’t help but notice the little cross in the background.  The female pastor is standing on the stage with all the candles lit and in the middle of it all and barely able to see it but yet it is still there is the cross.  At the foot of the cross is a large wedding party who have no clue as to what is about to take place.

If they had done this at the ‘anouncement’ at the beginning of the reception I would have no problem with that.  But there is nothing to celebrate before a wedding.  The couple is about to make vows before Almighty God.  They spent more time putting that dance together than considering the promises they are about to make.

Why does this video clip bother me so much?  I prayed about it but  I kept coming back to Hebrews 13 that says this, “Marriage must be honored by all…”

The primary purpose of marriage is to bring glory and honor to God.  In fact marriage is one of the primary God ordained means by which we give glory to God.  Simply put, marriage brings glory to God.  The primary purpose of marriage is not comfort, sex, or even to replenish the earth.  Those are secondary in relation to the first purpose of bringing glory to God.

As this couple in the video is about to be united as Husband and Wife and make vows before God, the focus of this wedding is all about having fun without any reverence or concern of God’s glory.  In the video the cross almost looked like it was ‘in the way’.

I think that sums up my generation.  The ‘cross is in the way’ of everything.  The cross is in the way of the world’s desires, goals, pleasures, attitudes, and purposes.    These dancing fools are all concerned about the spotlight on them and not Jesus Christ.

I think of this section of Scripture in Luke 7:31-23

“To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other:
” ‘We played the flute for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not cry.’

Jesus is comparing his generation to a group of kids who only want to play games and think life is just a game and treat it as such.  Jesus is talking about the Pharisees and Sadducees in context.  They tried very hard to get John the Baptist and Jesus to play ‘their games’ but neither one of them would do so.  Jesus refused to play the games of the world.  Followers of Jesus Christ it is essential we stop playing the games of the world.

Oh Wade lighten up, it’s just a wedding video and they were having fun.  I refuse to play that worldly game.  My generation is dancing their way straight to hell and they are laughing all the way.

This video made me weep halfway through it when I saw the shadow of the cross in it.  Marriage must be outward focused meaning living each day to bring glory to God not inward focused.  The world wants me to “lighten up” about Marriage and the purposes that God has for marriage.  I cannot compromise ever the idea of allowing anything to rob God of His glory and His purposes.

World, when you play your flute…I will not dance.  When you sing your dirge….I will not cry.

I will not play your games.

For His Glory,

-Wade

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