Once again God is expanding on my purpose for my life. It's amazing how I've known that I was meant to be a musician since I was 13 but that was all I knew. Now here I sit with greater revelation on why He's entrusted me with this gift and how I'm supposed to use it, and I know I haven't even come close to the fullness of it!
This morning I saw a tweet about music being a runway to God encounters. God took that simple phrase and began to expand on it. Here's what He's been speaking to me.
As a musician, I automatically have a platform. Even in the Bible the musicians were the ones to go in front of the army. Why?
1. To send a message to the opposing army that they were on they're way. To announce the coming of war! To communicate to the opposing team!
We have the ability to send a message to the opposing team! But when we decide we want to blend in and make the same noise and sound that everyone around us is making, how can we even be heard! We have been given a voice but if we just say what everyone else is already saying, then we chose to give up our voice and support the message of someone else. Saying something different will always cause friction, because it causes people to chose. "When you have options, division is the next step", but if we dont give them a reason to choose what is right then we are responsible for the lack of change. What do you want to see happen in the world? Sing about that!
2. They also at the same time would pump up their army! Music has a way of connecting with your emotions and causes you to feel something. There was a sense of victory that attached itself to the music and helped the soldiers to fight with everything in them.
I believe that it is the same way with music today. Musicians still have a huge platform and how we chose to use that platform determines the outcome of our society.
Now lets look at the current state of our society. What is the statistic for the age kids start having sex? I know the age keeps getting lower and lower. And what do they think love is? How do they treat one another? What kind of music are they listening to? It's all about relationships, sex, hurt, anger, revenge and we wonder why our children are struggling so badly! What you expose yourself to is what your going to learn from. The future of our country lies in the hands of our children and we continue to dump all our hurts and anger on them through the platform of music. And we wonder why our nation is in such bad shape.
Musicians, it's time we recognize our responsibility to our nation and the world. America has such a huge influence on the rest of the world too! We are way to powerful to take our gift lightly. It's time we rise up and use our gifts to encourage our world. Not just sell songs and write hits to glorify ourselves. We have been entrusted with too much to be selfish. But we will only write from the overflow of our hearts. What we dwell on is what we limit ourselves too. If we choose to be influenced by the same music that is influencing the world, we will only continue to give the world what it already has. I refuse to contribute to the current state of our nation but the way to start to create change, is to change me.
God, continue to show me how to live in such a way that when this gift comes out of me it will be a runway to You.
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