We have another Don Imus this week, in the person of Rosie O'Donnell. I will quote the scripture again:

"The good man (woman) out of the good treasure of his (her) heart brings forth that which is good, and the evil man (woman) out of the evil treasure of his (her) heart brings forth that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his (her) mouth speaks." Luke 6:45.

If Rosie's mouth is indeed an indication of the condition of her heart, then God help her. She needs a supernatural heart transplant, changing her heart from one of stone to a heart of flesh.
"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26)."

We Christians all know that this means she needs to have a born-again experience, but it is the job of the Holy Spirit to woo her. There is a lot of stony ground that needs to be plowed up before she will be ready to receive the Word of God. She has an embittered attitude towards Christians because she probably has not had much experience with Christians who are actually walking the talk.

Now, my first reaction to Rosie (in general) is one of revulsion. She mocks just about every value I hold dearly, and she mocks my faith in Jesus Christ. Of course, Jesus said that if they hated Him, they would hate us, too, and that if we are persecuted for His sake, we should rejoice.

But Rosie's job is to try and get a rise out of people. She doesn't care who she offends or how outrageous she behaves. She's a controlling person who bullies her way to the top. But, in reality, she is a lost soul hiding from God. The only Christians she has seen are the hardline religious "Christians" who are quick to judge and condemn rather than love her into God's kingdom. She doesn't want to hear that homosexuality is a sin. She would consider that offensive and judgmental. But the truth is, it is a sin. God loves the sinner, but He hates the sin. And it is the truth that will set the sinner free.

There are too many Christians out there who are quick to judge the sins of others at the expense of compromising their own love walks. Maybe if Rosie had been shown the true love of Christ at some point in her life, she could have been healed from all of the painful wounds which obviously torment her constantly. She compares the Christians to the radical Muslims (terrorists), because she sees the radical far right as a group whose purpose is to steal away her rights to sin however she chooses.

I have been guilty of behaving like the Christians that Rosie hates. In fact I would venture to guess that all of us have at some point or another. We are called to "be holy because He is holy," and "without holiness no one will see the Lord." But dwelling on the unholiness of others is not going to make us any more holy. Watching Rosie's disgusting (and I say this without judgment) behavior grieved me to the point of wanting to stop watching the media. It makes me sick - sick at the human condition; sick that the body of Christ has not done a very good job in the public eye; sick that being a Christian has become associated with being a far right wing religious political party (which will upset the Christian democrats).