Two More Things

I've been thinking more lately. I've got two things:

1) Faith and works. A real and genuine Christian faith will result in acts of love and charity. It will make you care about others more than yourself. But these things will not be motivated by obligation or guilt. It will be a natural response to Christ's love. If a person's faith doesn't result in these things, then I would say that their faith is dead and I'm not convinced it's a saving faith. Yes I said that.

If this is the case, then a lot of people who think they're saved probably aren't. Jesus said that the gate to life is narrow and few find it (Matthew 7:13-14), and also that anyone who wants to find their life must lose it for his sake (Matthew 10:39 and 16:25). It's heavy stuff, worth giving a lot of thought to.

2) Rihanna's song "Rude Boy." Here are some of the lyrics:

Come here, rude boy, can you get it up?
Come here rude boy, is your big enough?
Take it, take it baby, baby
Take it, take it; love me, love me

Tonight I'ma let you be the captain
Tonight I'ma let you do your thing, yeah
Tonight I'ma let you be a rider
Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up babe
Tonight I'ma let it be fire
Tonight I'ma let you take me higher
Tonight, baby, we could get it on, yeah

This song breaks my heart to be honest. Seems to me that the whole thing is a masked cry for love, and Rihanna feels like the only way to get it is to give her body away. I feel like it's a reflection of how Godless our society has gotten. Is sex the only thing guys care about? Is sex the only way women feel that they can get love? It's angering. The world has never been in more need of Christians who take their faith seriously and who will love people without an agenda no matter what the cost.