What Sadie Robertson Huff Learned from LOVE IS BLIND
By Movieguide® Contributor
Sadie Robertson Huff began a recent convocation to Liberty students with a confession: she binge-watched LOVE IS BLIND.
She said that it started with watching a couple episodes with her friends and eventually getting her husband Christian “sucked in” as well.
“Y’all, we’re just loving this show. Now I gotta be honest with you. This is not a good show,” Huff admitted. “If you watch the show, you know what I’m talking about. It doesn’t exactly align with our morals.”
The speaker and author shared how she felt convicted about watching the show but ignored it, and then it finally led to justifying her actions.
“Where I went next level because I wasn’t just ignoring my conviction. I wasn’t just excusing my conviction,” she said. “But what I started to do is I started to think of all the good reasons as to why I’m watching LOVE IS BLIND. And I was telling my friend, ‘You know what, it’s actually such a good thing that we’re watching the show because it’s really teaching us about what not to do in marriage.’”
She uses this anecdote to explain how easy it is to compromise and why believers fall into that trap.
“We compromise because maybe it helps us climb the ladder. We compromise because we get to enjoy that satisfaction. We compromise because that thing in the moment just seems better than listening to our conviction,” Huff continued.
To live the “fullness of God” means “following God fully,” she tells the students.
“So many of us, we want to be one foot in with God and one foot in with the world so that we can still be cool and still be relatable and still have fun,” the 27-year-old said.
“Compromise just offers temporary satisfaction, but God offers eternal hope,” she added.
While our flesh might try to justify certain sins by arguing that the Bible is not clear about certain things or that they are harmless, the Louisiana native reminded the students that there is no “gray area” with God.
“[W]hen you start to read the Bible, you start to realize there’s not a lot of gray. God’s pretty clear,” the DUCK DYNASTY star said.
“Even when you go into what you watch, just like what it says in the Bible, think about whatever is honorable and true, and you know all these things like, holy, pure, admirable,” she added. “It even talks about our joking in Ephesians 5, it’s like, hey, don’t joke and put others down. You’re above that. Don’t do that. Sexual immorality, it says, flee from it.”
The mom of two tells the audience that as Christians, conviction doesn’t mean to carry shame. She cited Romans 8:1 where the Apostle Paul writes: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Huff reminded the students that conviction is a gift that is meant to draw believers closer to Christ.
“I’m so thankful I feel convicted. I’m so thankful God won’t let me sit there and do the wrong thing. He loves me enough to say, ‘Sadie, I have so much more for you. There’s so much more than this moment. You’re so much better than that,’” she said.
Along with her “WHOA That’s Good” podcast and speaking engagements, Huff’s worship band, LO Worship, released “Followers,” which is about following Jesus even if it is not popular.
The chorus of “Followers” goes:
You’re the way that I’m walkin’
You’re the truth that I’m talkin’
I don’t care if it costs me followers
As long as I’m followin’ You
You’re the life never-ending
Not ashamed to be all in
I don’t care if it costs me followers
As long as I’m followin’ You
Huff posted her gratitude for the response to the song and more about the inspiration behind it.
“WOW! I am so grateful for the response to ‘Followers’ by@lo.worship. /really believe that this song is going to be an anthem for people living for Jesus in a social media obsessed world,” the singer/songwriter wrote.
“People want so badly to be seen, but their true desire is to be known. You can be seen by millions and feel like the loneliest person. (Speaking from experience here),” she continued. “Yet you can be known by just a few and feel completely secure. The next generation is HUNGRY for Jesus in the midst of a world that is obsessed with image, and God will do beautiful things in result.”
Movieguide® previously reported on another song that Huff recently recorded dealing with self-esteem and body image:
“Today, I did something that, if you had told me at 17 I would be doing at 27, I never would have believed you. I would have looked at you in shock and wondered what the heck happened in the span of 10 years…because whatever it was, it would have had to be a miracle,” Huff wrote in an Instagram post. “Today, I sang and recorded a song that I helped write, and it is a testimony to overcoming body image issues.”
“First, singing in general has always made me insecure, and it’s something I’ve been so afraid of doing. Second, I was gripped by negative body image, low self-esteem, self-worth issues, anxiety, toxic eating habits, and mental loops,” she continued.
“The fact that today I sang a song that I wholeheartedly believe every word of and actually live out now is truly by the power of God – by the grace, mercy, and undeniable love of God becoming real to me,” Huff added. “In the past 10 years, Jesus has radically changed me. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Today, I live in that freedom and sing from that freedom – freedom in my mind, my body, and my soul I hope that when this song comes out, it can lead others to find that same freedom.”
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