Colossians 3:16
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
When the word of God dwells in us richly in all wisdom, we
will teach each other in spiritual songs and we will sing with grace in our
hearts to God. The most major part of my testimony is the influence that music
has made on my life. While it may sound like some kind of excuse, I would say
that you can blame everything that went wrong in my life to a handful of
artists. I never would have never expected that throwing out and, in some
cases, destroying my old music would have changed me as much as it did. Let me
just say that I have an extreme need for music in my life. I woke up to music,
I showered to music, I ate to music, I drove to school to music, sat in class
listening to music, dove home to music, and went to bed listening to music. As
Bill and I were talking yesterday, he brought it to my attention that whatever
we go to when we were either angry or happy, was our idol. When I had a
problem, I would listen to music and when I was happy I would listen to
music. Music had become an idol to me,
honestly I had never seen it that way until writing this. One day when I
realized my life was going in the opposite direction that I wanted it to go, I
knew the reason for all of this was what I was rooting my heart in. It was
ridiculous how fast a change of music changed my life, honestly because it was
an internal change. I began to think differently, the songs that were stuck in
my head were pleasing to God, and memorizing lyrics from these new artists lead
to me to memorizing scripture. My minds perversion was changed radically in a
matter of weeks, and truthfully I don’t have a real attraction to those artists
music anymore. It’s the opposite of garbage in garbage out, God’s word in,
God’s word out. So, while I know there are a lot of different thoughts on this
and I don’t know about anyone’s walk with the Lord, I want to suggest to
everyone that they check that which they are putting in, because for my life, I
told people for years that “well music doesn’t really affect me,” it did affect
me and it does to everyone, don’t give me that. This verse says to let the word
of Christ dwell in us richly. When it is in us, we will sing spiritual songs
with grace in our hearts to Him.
I would like for anyone, when or if they hear me singing or
humming a song that is downright sinful to call me out on it.
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