November 2005
Q: What's wrong with non-Christian songs? I listen to the beat and the music, not the words.
A: I was a psychology major in college, and one thing I did was a bit of clinical testing on auditory memory.
Wassat?
I tested hearing and memory in other people.
Guess what? If a word is sounded that lasts only a fraction of a second, you might not necessarily remember the actual act of hearing the word. But you will be able to say what that word was.
How can you do that?
God made your brain and your ears amazing machines. So amazing, that you can't not hear words. You can even understand garbled words because of His genius in wiring your brain.
That means you listen to the words to those non-Christian songs even when you think you aren't. You might not remember hearing them, but you could probably recite phrases. And you most certainly retain understanding of their meaning in your head somewhere under all those layers.
Telling yourself to not listen to the words of songs is like trying to make yourself not read.
Why is this important?
If you read a book full of profanity, you'd probably start thinking or speaking those profanities. If you read a book full of immoral behavior being approved of, it would influence your thinking and your attitude on a deeper level than just your thoughts.
Same things with songs. You'll repeat profanities. You'll start thinking the way the lyrics tell you to think.
God wants to influence you the most through His word. He obviously doesn't expect you to read nothing but the Bible, but He does ask you not to fill your head with things that are against His teachings:
"Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Ephesians 4:8-9
Find Christian music that you can groove to, and fill your head with things that'll help you grow closer to God, not farther.
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