When I am in connection with how God is working around me, Truth strikes me from multiple sources. Several months ago, I wrote a series of blogs relating to "The Twilight Series." I am currently reading Beth Moore's newest book "So Long Insecurity;" and, this week I am wrapping up an event featuring Lysa TerKeurst, as the speaker. I am home today, and happened upon Focus on the Family's broadcast entitled, "Navigating the Vampire Phenomenon, 1."
One of my biggest questions regarding "The Twilight Series" is the extreme obsession I see among very young girls, teenagers, young women, and middle-aged women. Females of all ages pour over these books (reading them many times over), see the movies with great anticipation and joy, and talk about the characters like they are real people. As I read Beth's discussion of insecurity, which includes many real-life examples of women who share, with intense honesty, their own struggles with insecurity, I can not help but wonder about how fiction like that of "The Twilight Series," negatively impacts woman's view of real life and love. As was stated in the broadcast above, I also can not help but question the source of need that this obsession represents.
Lysa TerKeurst points out (on her blog, in her spoken messages, and in her books) that humankind is created to crave. In Truth, God created us to crave Him! Yet, we attempt to meet that craving with everything but God, or a combination of things, along with a sprinkle of God. I attempt to fill my cravings for God with food, with work, with busy-ness, with service, with entertainment, with human comforts. I see a STRIKING CONNECTION between the insecurity of women, the innate pull of our cravings to be met with something or someone, and the obsession with vampires!
Don't label me "self-righteous." Though "The Twilight Series" has not sucked me in, I succumb to hundreds of other powerful (and inappropriate) cravings - not the least of which is food.
Oh God, fill my life with You.
Move me to crave you first and foremost!
Allow every other pleasure to be enjoyed
through the filter of Your perfect love for me,
and Your complete fulfillment in me.
Amen!
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