"Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell of all His wonderful acts"

1 Chronicles 16:9. It is hard to describe the impact music can have on our lives. Music can express the innermost corners of our mind; all of our thoughts and feelings. It can put feelings into words when there are no words. Music is also a universal language. People can tell serious songs from happy-go-lucky songs no matter what language they are sung in. Music can touch people down to their very core, no matter how tough they may seem to be. I listen to so many different types of music and I have learned to appreciate every single genre of music from ragtime to rap and everything in between. However, since becoming Christian, I realize how much music out there today is so un-Godly! Some of the lyrics are so terrible; parents may not even know how bad. I am not ready to give up all that music (that I spent hundreds of dollars on!) so now I take the lyrics I am listening to and turn them back to God. For example, I regret to admit I am a big fan of Adam Lambert's music. I simply cannot deny how talented he is. The first song on his first album is called Music Again. The lyrics go, "oh, you make me wanna listen to music again." I simply change it to, "oh, You make me wanna listen to music again." Even though I know Adam is talking about a guy probably, I sing it to God. He does make me wanna listen to music! I wanna sing as loud as I can as much as I can in His name! Music is also wonderful in the fact that there are so many ways to produce music! Singing, countless instruments, all sorts of percussion instruments, listening to recorded music, and getting a song or tune stuck in your head. Which I admit does get annoying after a while. But each method of music can touch people so deep and give them words to describe the hardships and issues in their lives which often times gives people courage ironically because they now know what they are fighting. Music can be a message to people that God often uses to help us through struggles and tell us how to fight back in His name. I am a very musically based person, but even if you are not, God has given us the language of music so that we might sing to Him and tell of all His wonderful acts.
God Bless!
ChristianKid