MTV Exclusive!
Posted by:
Bible Blogger on
December 10, 2006 at
11:55PM EST
I know I don't reveal much personal information in this blog. I'm
going to change that a little bit with this entry. Here is my momentus
confession:
I am a child of the 80s.
Further, I wasn't a
Christian during that time so I wasn't someone trying to shove DeGarmo
& Key and Petra down people's throats. Nope...I love the 80s and
early 90s music. I have music on my iPod from such well-known hair
bands as Ratt, Bon Jovi, Vixen, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, etc. I can
sing all the lyrics from Slade's "Run Runaway." I've listened to
"Operation: Mindcrime" uninterrupted because I put the cassette on
auto-reverse. I don't still dress like I did back then (it even scares
me now) but my iPod looks like it was stuck in 1989.
One of the
coolest things from that time was exclusive videos on MTV. You could
only see the videos there. They didn't just put the name of the band,
song title and album in the bottom left corner. Oh no...they had a
little "Exclusive MTV" logo where the M was slanted out like we were
getting a peek behind the scenes. You'd even sit around waiting for
the time of the hour when you knew they'd be playing an MTV Exclusive.
It came back to me the other day while goofing around on YouTube. I
was putting in the names of 80s bands I liked and after watching Motley
Crue's "Dr. Feelgood", Vixen's "Edge of a Broken Heart" and Slade's
"Run Runaway" I found the "Slip of the Lip" video by Ratt with the MTV
Exclusive logo. Good memories came back. Then as luck would have it,
the next band I looked up was Asia...and their "Go" video had the same
graphic. (I was a big Asia fan.)
That lovely MTV Exclusive.
That little graphic that said the only way to see it was to come to
MTV. It made everything seem special. Ah...the memories of youth.
Now...I'm sure you're wondering what that has to do with a Bible blog.
As I was driving home tonight I was thinking about MTV exclusives and
thought of another exclusive that I...and I hope you...get just as
excited about...
" Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 (NIV)
I
honestly had to ask myself if I get as excited about coming and
spending time with the true exclusive...Jesus...as I did about those
sappy, over produced, hairspray enhanced exclusive videos. Here is
the one way you can get to your Father in heaven...only one way...and
yet many times I don't get as excited as I remember getting all those
years ago when Martha Quinn would say the new Asia video was coming up.
We
all tend sometimes to take that Christian walk for granted. We do all
the right things...prayer time, read the Word, go to church...but it
becomes like an obligation instead of a joy. I went into worship
today with the attitude that I was going to praise God like I did those
lame videos and it was one of the best worship experiences I'd had in a
long time. I want to encourage you that if you'd been sleepwalking to
think of something you long loved...and ask if you've been loving Jesus
that way.
