Do you know what you are listening to?

Music is a powerful medium to convey messages to people. Think of your favorite song...bet you can sing the lyrics to it. How is it you can remember that but not the Pythagorean theorem? Oh I am sure you will say you can remember what you want to remember and that is true but you also can remember lyrics without even consciously thinking about them. Why is that? The power that music has to impact you is very real.

When is the last time you actually listened to the music that comes on your radio or is on shuffle in your ipod? You just might be surprised what those songs are really saying. We compromise in a lot of ways and say its just one song what is that? Little by little we are desensitizing ourselves to sin. We can rationalize it away but ultimately our music can change the way we think if we continue to fill our heads with junk. GIGO I call it...garbage in, garbage out...

I am no prude. I listen to a variety of styles of music from trance to hardcore metal music to country but I believe it is very important for you to pay attention to what these songs are saying to you. Take some time to look up the lyrics of your favorite artist. Look into that artist's beliefs...what they are about and why they sing the songs they do...you just might be surprised by what you find out.

You have heard the noise over what you watch on TV, Youtube, etc and how that effects your attitude but music has that subtle effective power to stay with us in our memory banks for years. I still associate a very bad breakup I had with a song that had the lyrics "you dropped a bomb on me" and every time I hear that song played, I think about that breakup. That is powerful.

Couple music with power of video imagery and you get a double dose of dangerous. I watch MTV (of course they don't play videos on MTV anymore much) and other video channels and I see so much more about the song than I ever could have imagined by the words alone. You do too. Except you are still learning what is right and what is wrong and developing a filter for the things the world throws at you.

I pray you will take some time to listen to the songs you like...pay attention to what that artist is singing about in your fav videos...I hope and pray God opens your eyes...