Music and Love

Song is an amazing thing. It can be used for so many different things. Music can stir emotions and calm them, inspire actions and speak against them. I have been listening to some CD’s that a friend of mine gave me and they have changed my life. These two discs are full of passionate music; some soft and some loud. These songs speak of living for God, of treating men as brothers and women as daughters of the King, and of love.

 Love is probably the most interesting topic of songs. You can find songs that speak of love as an act; of finding it in a club one night with a stranger. Songs like that are a dime a dozen. The same goes for songs about false love, where the boy/girl is SO SURE that this is the right person; but this is not the right person and they end up hurt. These are all over the radio. The rarity, the four leaf clover, of music is the song of true love. When I say true love, I don’t mean something that feels right. I mean something that is anointed by God, something that is set in motion by the One who cares for you more than any person could. These songs cut deep. They make you examine your life; they present a ruler to measure your life against.

 Truth is your life won’t measure up. Few, if any, people have lived their entire lives apart from the culture of this world. People aren’t to be blamed for this, they aren’t to be called failures for this, for we live in this world. At EVERY turn in our life we are bombarded with thoughts and ideas that come from this world. These ideas penetrate into our lives and soil them. We will never be perfect. We will never be worthy. We, by ourselves, are horrible little things. We, with our Father, are worthy of it all. We, with our Father’s love covering all our faults and bad decisions, are beautiful children of the King of Kings. Because of His blood, we are made pure and worthy of love.

We are worthy of love. People need to start realizing that. They think that they are loveless or a lost cause. They think that true love is something for fairytales. The truth is that true love exists. It is hard to find, but it is out there. The trick is to wait for it. If you look too hard you will start seeing things. You will imagine you have found that love, but it ends up false like in today’s pop songs. We all have someone out there who is made for us.

I took a break and lost my train of thought. I hate when that happens. Maybe it’ll come back to me later. Let’s hope it does.