A captured heart

"Apart from Christ let nothing dazzle you." - A.W. Tozer

Many of the problems with the Christian church today come from the root of being so enamored with pop culture. Many of our professed Christians have their attention captured quicker by a catchy magazine headline then they do by a move of God. We have been more than dazzled by the culture around us we have become a part of it. Our hearts and minds have become so fascinated with the movie stars, musicians, and athletes that God is very often lucky to be an after thought in our lives. We say He is first but our time calls us a liar. We use the excuse that there is just no good Christian music but years ago people were very committed to God without even the possibility of recorded music. The media and not God has truly captured the heart of the Christian. We are Christian only in the cultural definition of the word not the devotion sense. We must identify that there is a problem, when, the events of a cultural icons life is our conversation topic while very few of our conversations are centered around Christ. We wear pictures of men and women on our shirts proving that Jesus is barely in our hearts or on our minds. We will seek Him and find Him when we seek Him with all of our hearts, the problem is that the desires of our hearts are pointed in so many directions i fear many of us will never find Him. I am not questioning salvation, simply providing an answer for dry Christian living.

Cole Zick