Music

      I'm sure most of us Christians, at the beginning of our new life with Christ came to this point sooner or later about the music issue(if not don't feel left out). God as he worked in you and cleansed your heart from all of your impurities, he also changed your view point of the world, gave you a new perspective on life, and changed what you may have liked before you came into the faith. If you are music junkie like me, you more than likely thought about your iTunes library, windows media player, CD's or whatever you use to store your music. Like, " Wow, I'm not a part of the world anymore and these songs are full of all the things that God is against. But, I don't know how to make the transition and I feel like I might struggle with this for a while." If you are a person like this, talk to someone in the faith, that you can trust or won't judge you, pray about it, and if you need help with prayer feel free to email me. Now, back to the example, "Let me sort through my old music J.Cole(delete), Dwele(delete), P!NK(delete), Musiq Soulchild(delete), Kirk Franklin(keep), Chris Brown(delete), Rihanna(definitely delete) and the rest of these I'll just delete." I was the type of person who thought that they had some type of relationship with the Lord, when I didn't even know how to receive salvation by repentance, believing, and baptism. I was vaguely a hypocrite, confused and a liar not only to myself but, the people around me and to GOD! A mess right, I know but, now I'm on the right path(thank the LORD). Anyways back to the music scenario " I had all of the secular music and only a couple of gospel artist, what was the point of that? My actions and music definitely showed that I was not in the faith and that I was completely and utterly, lost. Now, there are true believers who believes that the kind of music you listen to doesn't have to be all Christian, as long as it's glorifying the Creator above. But, how do you decipher? If you have to really read, read in between the lines that song is probably a no go. But, if it's blatantly there and you know that it's glorifying God clearly then go ahead, 'with caution'. From my perspective I think it's better when you're new to the faith, to just cut out all of the music you listened to before, so that you won't fall out of the faith or into deep temptation. For a month or two, challenge yourself by listening to music that glorifies Jesus. Listen to the lyrics, meditate on the word, see if it compares to the word, see how it affects your mood and how it contrast with your other music. As, for myself when I did this, I actually enjoyed it much better than the other music, that I considered useless, and trash because, I wasn't benefiting from it. But, don't get me wrong I listen to some Micheal Jackson or some oldies every now and then. So, overall just pray, ask God to help you with your music choices, to give you a change or heart and open mind. But, you also have to be prepared for God to fulfill your prayer and not hesitate. I have a post/tab with a list of Christian artist in different genres because, not everyone enjoys the same type of music.

Happy Praying, Music revising and such things!

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