Word and Music

When ever you listen to a song, you're not just listening to its melodic tune but, you are listening to the message of the song. If the person is not careful on the kind of songs he’s listening to, he’ll end up feeling sorry, down, depressed, hopeless, discourage and sometimes kill himself because of the negative words that are in that song. The sad part about it is that we’re not aware that part of our depression came from that negative, rebellious song that we are listening to.
When I was young, well, I’m still young even until now. I like heavy metal song. I listen to it all day everyday, from the time I open my eyes in the morning till I go to my bed. I mean, I can’t live without music. Metalicca and Nervana was just a couple of my many, many band that I listened to before. Probably as we all know now a lot of teen-ager were influenced by these bands and messed their life due to the negative words that these artist is declaring through their songs. God has given as freewill. We have a choice. We don’t need to be in bondage to their songs. There’s a lot of good music that we can listen to, or we can sing, but you have to remember that it does not necessarily mean that only rock and heavy metal music contain negative lyrics. There are a lot, and I mean a lot of junk music out there! All kinds of music that, you can think of. Now you say “I’ll just listen to Christian music, I’m sure it has a lot of good things to say!” Well, not quite. Probably much worst than, those heavy metal groups that I just mentioned. Why? Because those Christian songs that’s telling us that God is the author of sickness and its okay to live life poor and humble, will just move you away from Jesus. Nobody wants to live in sickness and in defeat. All of us want to succeed in life, that’s the reason why people are not comfortable when they hear song that’s telling them that its okay live a poor and not enough life, subsequently people are being drawn away from the gospel and from God.
For me that’s far worst than those secular songs. Imagine, your creator, the one that loves you so much, that He gave His Life for you, has now become the one that you hated most. Why? Because you think that He’s the one that messed your life, He’s the one that killed your mama or your favorite uncle, anyway I heard one song that says he gave and takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Don’t listen to those songs. Know that not all songs are intended to be listened to. I would suggest that you listen to songs that are full of the Word of God. Faithmusic manila is one of those producing company that will really encourages you to go on in life, that there’s hope in Jesus, there’s deliverance in Jesus. Remember only those songs that are faith-filled needs to be given attention to.