catchy tune, but what does it say?

    (Originally posted on Multiply.  This is from a long time ago, back when I was at Lindenwood University.  The lesson was memorable and definitely influenced the way I listen to music to this day.)

       

     I had previously pretty much gave a brief on the LCF lesson by the same title (but it was stolen by evil computer gnomes) but now instead I will tell about it with only a few particulars and –well, you will see.

            The discussion was about the messages that songs tell.  We listened to a variety of music, “secular” and “Christian” and discussed what the song said and what the Bible had to say concerning what it said. 

            It was interesting to note that even in secular music there can be found “echoes of the truth” (the world’s in trouble, something wrong with our eyes, we cannot save ourselves) while there are some “Christian” songs with a less than scriptural message (Everything is fine because God believes in you, everything matters if anything matters because you). 

    Point: consider the messages that you allow to be in your head.  What are you listening to?  What are they saying?  On the note of what are they saying–The two songs that were hardest to understand were perhaps the most strikingly dissimilar in word.  The first was bitter and vengeful (not a Christian song even in pretense) the last told how nothing mattered compared to knowing God, and asked Him to purify and renew the heart.  

            So I wonder, what am I listening to?  I can’t control what they play in the office, but what do I listen to on my computer or when I turn on a(n internet) radio?  Most of it actually lacks words, but not all the time.  What am I putting into my head?

 

(Right now, “Who I am Hates Who I’ve Been”   I’m sorry for who I was, I’m ready to change,)