I was riding in the car with someone, and they were playing some Avant when they came to pick me up.  I offered to put in Tye Tribbett's new CD, the first thing they said as that he was too secular... even though they pulled up blasting Avant's newest album...  hmm...  It really got me thinking about a lot of stuff...

All the time, I encounter people who will say this and say that...  but they have their things that they don't want to let go of.  And then there are those who seem they CAN'T let go of things... but mostly I meet people who don't feel the NEED to let go of the ungodly things.  But it's like... why hold onto it?
     We are temples of God...  we should treat our lives and our bodies as such.  We should let go of everything that don't glorify God.  All the music we like...  if it doesn't glorify God, it's idolatry to listen to it.  If it's not glorifying God, then it glorifies something OTHER than God.  It could be the artist who made the song, could be a song to get you to glorify yourself, or something else.  It could glorify money, sex, material things...  but God doesn't get the credit for the song.  When God gets the credit "Lord you are..." "Thank you, Lord for..."  "Jesus is..."  "Jesus you did this... Jesus you did that for me" then that is worship to him.  but if the song gives credit to anything but... that is worship to that thing, not God..  Worshipping of idols is idolatry.  There.  I explained that.
     But it's not just music.  Idolatry is that drunk who refuses to put down the beer bottle.  It's that boy who refuses to stop watching pornography.  It's that girl who loves her Aaliyah, and her D'Angelou.  it's that other one who watches all that TV instead of going to pray.  that boy who can't stay off the computer, and the one who would rather talk on the phone, than talk to God.  ANYTHING put before God is idolatry!  So I ask....
     What are we willing to give up for God?  Would we be able to give up America's Next Top Model for one season?  Would we be able to leave myspace if we had to?  What are the things you are having a hard time just letting go of?  i think everyone has there things..  Even if it's not extremely obvious... many of US have things that we put more worth to than we should.  Try your VERY BEST to put God before ALL things.  Even the music you like and the books you read.  Don't read books more than you read your bible.  You can't be all up in Sisters of the APF and be trying to hide the Word in your heart.  The APF will kick the word right out.  They conflict WAY too much.  I know from EXPERIENCE!  Leave it alone. lol.
     Yo, don't think I am judging or nothing like that.  "OH YOU POINTED ME OUT IN YOUR THING!!!!!"  No it's not like that.  I'm calling what I see.  And if you happen to fit the mold, ask God to give you the strength to break the mold (I just had a de javou).  Have you ever heard preachers say that the messages God gives them are not only for the congregation they preach to, but for themselves, also?  This is not just for the reader, but the writer as well.