Are we meant to be 'the mirror of a lost world' or the 'mirror to a lost world' ... ?

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to experience first hand what this new generation regards as music. As I placed the Ipod headphones on; what I was confronted with was a cancophony of sound that I can only describe as what it might be like to be in the Lake of Fire. Hate poured out of those tiny speakers and spanked me so hard, I was in shock. Fortunately, I had brought along with me a 1G stick with some music by Resurrection Band. (I reckoned that even though it was not as loud and out-of-date, it had a message of hope.)

Soft, gentle, hypnotic sounds are no less dangerous than LOUD BASHING SCREAMING SOUNDS, both achieve a similar end, they create a state of mind I have called, 'embalming fluid, in preparation for the Lake of Fire.'

I believe that the safest music is the sort that Jesus was indicating to; when He spoke to the woman at the well of Summaria.

The current trend is towards mantra, towards contemplative, towards trance, towards guru, shaman, devotee - in lifestyle and music. It is dangerous and will crush as viciously as does that NOISE which I heard from that Ipod.

What is the remedy? I believe it is contained in the words of Jesus to the woman at the well of Summaria. We need to worship and live as Jesus taught us to pray, with sincerity, without repetition, with hearts and minds that are filled with the 'word of Christ', and hearts and minds that are filled with 'the Spirit of God'. We need to be light, we need to be salt; a 'light mirror of truth and spirit' to a world that is shrinking into despair, emptiness, the void, ....... the Lake of Fire.

So what's it to be ... ? Mirror of, or mirror to a lost world ?


Last edited by straw; Mon May 28, 2007 6:23 AM.