We get in the car this morning and my son says: Why do we always listen to church music? I said: it’s not church music, it’s Christian music, they just play some of it at church. He said: I want to listen to country, like we do in pawpaw’s truck. I said: well you can listen to country when you are with pawpaw…
I made the switch years ago…for several reasons: country
no longer sounds like country to me, it sounds a lot like pop; I don’t like the
memories that are stirred from listening to older secular music and I love listening
to scripture put to music.
The other day I was listening to the radio and a song came
on and it took me right back to a Single’s retreat I went on in Daytona years
ago. Yes, that specific! Isn’t it amazing how powerful music is? I can often be
transported to another time, a time that satan can really use to bring on
feelings of self-loathing and guilt. And that happens all over the place…they
play secular music everywhere: the mall, restaurants, doctors offices…But this
was a powerful transportation via Christian music. And it was oh so very cool!
It is cool to have been a Christian so long now, that older music reminds me of
parts of my Christian walk instead of just the dead me…
Have you ever noticed how many Christian songs come
straight out of the Bible? Have you ever heard that it’s easier to memorize
something to a tune? What a great and simple way to hide His Word in your
heart!
I haven’t figured out yet how to have this kind of
conversation with my 7 year old and tell him why I only listen to Christian
music…but the time will come. Meanwhile, the arguments are few and far between
and usually accompanied by missing his pawpaw…and there is nothing cooler than
to hear my boy (and every now and then, my little girl) singing loudly and
proudly to the lyrics on our ‘Christian’ radio. I know it must make God smile
much bigger than me J
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