But Sheeran stays in the light, letting it wash over him.
We see the vampire cronies take cover from the sunlight, ducking under cars and into darkened buildings. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” At the end of the video, the sun begins to rise. John 1:4-5 tells us, “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. He sings, “My bad habits lead to late nights, endin’ alone.” With God, we are never alone. In the “Bad Habits” video, vampire Sheeran catches his non-vampiric self being launched from a car crash, watching him deflate to the ground. And when we buried God in the ground, God got up.” In her memoir Searching for Sunday, Evans wrote, “When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. We have a God who brought our shame to the cross. But we also have a God who so loves us that he sacrificed his own son for our very redemption. We are fallen people, subject to original sin. ,” the late author and theologian Rachel Held Evans wrote, “I go, but I do not sin no more.” It’s impossible for us to lead perfect, sinless lives.
But the good news for us, as Christians? We can’t go too far for God.
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“I only know how to go too far,” sings Sheeran. In this moment, we see the possibility of redemption. He gives her a (fangless) balloon, consoling her. Sheeran gets stuck in a sea of yellow smiley-face balloons and spots a young vampire, alone and afraid. Interestingly, though, there is then a twist-a light, a hope for good. He sings, “Every pure intention ends when the good times start / Fallin’ over everything to reach the first-time spark.” We see Sheeran and crew take flight, fangs bared, as the crowd scatters in terror. In a blog for our sister ministry, Groundwork, Christopher Hunt writes, “The Seven Deadly Sins are in fact seven deadly attitudes.” These attitudes influence our actions, just as the seven vampires try to influence Sheeran throughout the video. The “Bad Habits” music video cleverly uses Sheeran’s seven vampire cronies to demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. ” As Sheeran sings, “I was lookin’ for a way out, now I can’t escape.” We often feel trapped in the shame of our sins. When we feel shame, we often use phrases like “I’m unworthy of. Shame cuts much deeper, equating our mistakes or actions with our entire selves. Guilt is recognizing or perceiving that we have done something wrong, whereas shame is feeling that we are entirely wrong. My therapist recently explained to me the difference between guilt and shame. We feel ashamed at what we’ve done and the decisions we’ve made. Genesis 3:8 says, “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” When we have sinned, we often try to hide from God. Sin is a familiar concept for many of us, dating back to Sunday-school stories about Adam and Eve and the eating of the forbidden fruit. Unlike the Joker, though, Sheeran is not brought down by a cape-wearing, justice-seeking superhero. Sheeran’s pink suit-clad vampire is Joker-like, dancing through streets filled with scared citizens and assembling a crew of undead cronies. The opening shots of the video take us through a grungy city and inside a salon, where a black-nailed and pink-suited Sheeran bares a set of fangs as he begins to croon: “Every time you come around, you know I can’t say no / Every time the sun goes down, I let you take control.” The video is dark and feels like it should belong in the world of graphic novels or comic books. So what is he doing appearing as a vampire in the video for “Bad Habits” when vampires, famously, are not alive? Ed Sheeran entered the musical world with raw talent, a guitar, and beautiful, heartfelt lyrics about the hurt, pain, and joy of lived experiences.
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