So.... the past few days the Lord has been speaking to me about something.
It all started when I saw a post on facebook on how "Gaga went too far" and somebody mentioned the song "Judas."
Being a natural Gaga-hater, I of course had to research it a little deeper and figure out why this chick wrote a song named after the man who killed my Jesus.
Of course, what I found was repulsive, offensive, and in a sense evil... and I got furious.
I think what bothers me most about Gaga, more than other artists, is that I feel she is very INTENTIONAL with the direction she's going with her music career & influence.
She KNOWS what she's doing.
She KNOWS she's popular.
She KNOWS that the more "honest" and "real" she is with her fans, the more they ADORE her, even if the things she's being "real" about include her eating disorders & drug addiction.
She KNOWS that she has a lot of influence in the music industry, and she's using that to obscurely drop negative messages through her music, lyrics, and just overall self image.
And it's like, INTENTIONAL, and I feel in a sense carries some type of evil with it.
I saw in an interview with her, where she said "Well, I said that I'm going to make albums that will piss people off..." see? Intentional.
Anyways - I was furious.
The song was down-right offensive to Christians.
She mocks & plays with words like "a king with no crown."
Saying she wants to "was Judas' feet with her hair," and that Judas is the "demon she clings to."
It's blasphemous.
And for some reason, it enrages me to no end.
So I was sitting there, all pissed off, sickened at the thought of her influence over our generation, wanting to get on facebook & twitter and tweet away about how NOBODY should be a Gaga fan and how she's attacking Christianity and blah blah blah blah blah...
And then God kind of stilled my heart a little bit.
When Jesus was watching her write the lyrics to the song "Judas," I doubt He was getting all offended & shocked & angry.
NOPE - that's not my Jesus.
Don't get me wrong, Jesus is a jealous, just God and HATES sin... but He loves the sinner.
I have no doubt in my mind that Jesus wants Lady Gaga.
He wants her completely, heart & soul, to heal her from her addictions, pain, insecurity, eating disorders, anger, resentment, confusion, self-hatred.
He wants to heal & restore this beautiful girl that He made in His image & knit together by hand in her mother's womb.
Jesus wants Gaga.
A co-worker of mine went to her concert recently in San Antonio and she was saying how amazing Lady Gaga was, etc. She said that during her concert, Lady Gaga likes to take a few minutes and talk to her audience, which I'm sure is something they love about her.
My friend was telling me that during this time, when Lady Gaga was "being real" and talking to her fans, she talked about religion and she admitted to at this point in her life, "being confused."
That should've softened my heart more than it did, I think, I admit it.
But now, God's kind of showed me the pride in my own heart at how offended I get with what she does & represents.
So... instead of hating Lady Gaga's guts... I'm going to pray for her guts.
I don't know her personally, but I know the God of the Universe who knows her SO personally, and I've decided that I'm going to pray & fast for Lady Gaga.
Starting tomorrow.
I know you're not supposed to get all public with fasting, I understand that, and I'm in no way wanting to be a show-off or pretend to show how "awesome" I am... it really doesn't have anything to do with me at all, other than getting rid of some ugly crap in my heart... but the reason that I'm saying this is just because I want people to join me.
If she's confused enough to admit publicly at a concert that she's confused, and if she struggles with "clinging to demons" enough to write a song about it... then my guess is she needs Jesus.
Like I said, I can't personally witness to her, but I'm going to pray my butt off for her.
No more anger - which leads to nothing, really - just a lot of love & a lot of prayers.
Jesus wants Gaga.
And I know deep down, Gaga wants Jesus, too.
