Been thinking back recently on how I got into certain bands, and how their music's influenced my life and helped me get through different dark times. Sometimes, their music helped pick me back up and get me going again, other times they simply told me that I wasn't alone in what I was feeling.
Honestly, it could've been the difference between life and death if I hadn't listened to some songs.
If it hadn't been for a few people who'd showed me some different bands (like Skillet, Jars of Clay, Thousand Foot Krutch, Twenty One Pilots, Owl City, etc.) I doubt I'd be who and where I am today.
Music is a kind of haven. It's where you can simply stop thinking and let the words flow over you, the sounds that've been together can get inside of you and help sort through the mess that you're feeling. It's a place we all retreat to in order to feel something that simple words can't make us feel.
Why do you think the love song/breakup song industry's so big? 'Cause trust me, if any of us just said half of what was said in some of those love songs, people'd either look at us like we're crazy, or we'd end up in jail. Okay maybe not quite so extreme, but you get the point, right?
I mainly listen to Christian music, and there, mainly Christian Rock music, sometimes rap, sometimes electric pop, etc. I listen to some bands who don't outright SAY their Christian but if you listen to their music you can hear the strong Christian overtones and underlying themes beneath their lyrics.
Just to insert, if you don't listen to Christian music or if you listen to both Christian and secular music, I'm not judging you, I promise, I'm just stating my personal music tastes haha.
Music is a powerful thing. It can make you feel good or bad, up or down, determined or broken, angry or happy, sad or confused, etc.
Warning: this part may sound judgmental.
That's why we hear people say how important it is to be careful of what and who you listen to. Music is a way in which you can worship. So, depending on what you're listening to, if you let that theme take up a huge part of your life where you're almost (or not even almost, completely) obsessed with it, then I think it's safe to say that you're worshiping it.
God uses all kinds of things to speak to us. I mean, seriously, I've gotten hit between the eyes with how much God loves us by listening to 1D and EXO for crying out loud. But, while a Taylor Swift song can help you through a bad breakup or a 1D song can help you gain confidence and realize that you're beautiful the way you are, if you turn those people into some of the centermost pillars holding up your life, that can and will turn into something unhealthy, lead you down a path that's not what God intended for your life, and those people or subjects and stuff can turn into gods that will break you down and hurt you instead of heal you. We're supposed to worship the Creator, not the creation. :)
Anyways, sorry, didn't mean to get all theological on you guys haha. I guess I'm just tryna say that music has helped me through a lot, and it's helped you through a lot, we just need to make sure that it hasn't turned into our god instead of allowing us to get closer to the One True God. Trust me, Jesus loves music, and He likes to speak to us through it, but don't become obsessed with the owner of the mouth He chooses to speak to us through.
Love you guys!!! God bless!!! And thanks to the people who introduced me to all the different kinds of music and bands. You guys rawk. ;)
And lastly... HAPPY SUMMER!!!!!!!
--Sonya :)
