Just a few Sundays ago, I was at church in Jacksonville, NC and Pastor Ivan Miranda (my pastor) brought up something really great about music. He explained how music these days is all about sex, money, drugs, gangs, killing, and Satan. He also mentioned that there is music that explains about how the world is, love for another, but what we don’t understand is what is the real reason of music.
God gave the Devil music, that’s a fact. But how the music is used is really for the love of God. There are so many styles of music we all listen too. I personally love listening to Spanish Rock music, like Annette Moreno or Alex Campos. I really love Bachata and Merengue, it’s so awesome, but let me tell you what I saw from personal experience…
I went to a wedding in August and I was listening to a Christian Bachata mix on my way to the wedding. Now, the music we played for the wedding was nice, everyone liked it a lot. After we all were leaving and packing up, I blasted Richard Cepeda from the car so that theres a Jesus Party in the car, and I say a woman just dancing as if it was a club. I looked at her and I thought to myself, “Why are you doing such a thing? This is God’s music, not clubbing music.” Then I spoke the Aseneth about her dancing, and she said that God’s music and be blinding to others and they don’t know it…it can sound nice, but are they listening the message of the song?”
It’s the sound of music that makes people move, but are they listening? Music these days have message if we just focus into the song, how it was written and the passion that was used to write and sing. There’s a song by Rush called “The Spirit Of Radio”, and it talks about how people listen to music but don’t understand why it was written. Close to the end of the song says “For the words of the prophets were written on the studio wall/Concert Hall/ Echoes with the sound of salesmen” as a change from Simon and Garfunkel’s song called “The Sound of Silence”. It goes like this “…the words of the prophets/Are written on the subway walls/And tenement halls/And whispered in the sounds of silence.”
Just a modification of words on the song, it’s a good song, but the message is do we understand what they’re saying?
In the Christian life that I happily live by, I listen to a variety of music, from Reggaeton, Bachata, Mariachi, Merengue, Rock, etc. I love listening to Alex Campos a lot because his style changes a lot and all of his music has a message to it. For example, “Que Eres Para Mi?” says that is God really for me? YES HE IS!!!! Are WE for God? YES WE ARE!!! The religion in this world is what makes people think that we’re not for Him, but we are, God created us to live for Him and be happy. A lot of people don’t know that and that’s what hurts them a lot.
Now if we go into songs like “To the windows, to the walls, to the sweat drip down my balls, skeet skeet skeet m(*&^*^*&^.” Whats that saying? It’s saying that the guy wants to do dirty things to another person.
I was on Wikipedia the other day reading about a band called Slayer. An 80’s Speed and Thrash metal band that is popular today and most of there music sounds Satanic, but in reality they’re not because what they write about is how the world is today and how we’re corrupted by those who have so much money and power that they don’t know how to use it. There are some in the band that do believe in God, but don’t put God into anything.
Now a band like Stryper, who started in 1983, they we’re a Christian Metal Band that are still today that are firm believer’s in God and they loved everything about God!!!! To this day, their greatest song “Honestly” is still a great song, It’s considered a love ballad, but really it’s a love ballad…FOR GOD! They are a great band and all their music has a powerful message if we pray, focus, and understand the song.
If we focus on how every song is written, are we going to learn something from it? Think about it…is this song healthy? Is it for God? Does it benefit me? How can I apply this song into my life? What is the message?
Think about it.
