The Remote ConTroll "America's Top Model"

The remote control is a hand held device used for browsing your televisions channels from the comfort of your sofa, but it can also become somewhat of troll if we're not wise. In this monthly column we'll take a serious look at today's television from a scriptural perspective.

“America’s Next Top Model”

On this reality show, which Tyra Banks hosts, girls are expected to basically lose all self respect and dignity. You would also have to be willing to push the competition aside just to win it all. One girl almost caught pneumonia because she had to pose in a pool in the winter time. Not only is this show unsafe for anyone, especially girls with low self esteem, it is also completely unsupportive of biblical, holy living.

Some television programs seem innocent enough when you watch it for the first time, but once you start watching it a little more, and a little more, at first you don’t hear them taking the Lord’s name in vain, and you don’t see two people posing immodestly.

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"You become numb to the fact that you SHOULD change the channel, "

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...but because you have been watching the show for such a long time that you become so what of an addict. All you see is a few people ‘going for the gold’ and ‘reaching for there dreams’, which is what the world is telling you that you should do.

It’s no wonder that there is a generation full of girls crying in the bathroom while they throw up today’s meals and girls so thin that it doesn’t take a doctor to diagnose them with malnutrition. As for me, I don’t need the world to tell me what they think of me, as long as I am pleasing God. If the world considers me a wimp, goody-two-shoes, or, meaning it in an insulting manner, a Christian, I consider myself on the right path.

Allow God to control your remote.

Psalm 101:3a, “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:" (KJV)