Just couldn't help noticing a great surge of songs lately on how God would die for us, or we are so precious in His eyes or that He would give everything because of His love for us and some of the other emotional songs. Songs that will peel the outer layer of our emotional barriers and present our true emotion during worship. Songs that will lead us into submission and songs that somehow unite all worshiper. Isn't that wonderful? and isn't that very secular? Thinking about it, Christian songs has been guided by the lyrics of the secular love song. Sometimes we can even sing a secular love song in church, as long as the song leader has indicated that the person we are singing is to Jesus. Same secular songs can bring us into a strong state of emotional imbalance. Songs that comes "from the heart" and songs that synchronizes "headbangers" rhythm. Songs that want to make you jump and sing, lit a candle or just songs that make you want to desire more and more. Sometimes we sing God is waiting for us to take a step closer to Him, or He is waiting for us to make that step of faith or He would rather die than live without us....... these songs just put too much credit on ourselves and too little on God.
Well, perhaps let us consider these few points first.
1. God has predestined us from the beginning of time to be His child.
2. Man is born with sin and all are the same in His eyes, there is no Gentile nor Jews. Everyone is equally hopeless and sinful. Nothing they can do about it.
3. God extend forgiveness to all who accept His provisions of sins, that is Jesus Christ.
4. God gets all glory if a person accepts Jesus Christ or even reject Him.
5. God will fulfill everything that He has set out to do from the beginning of time.
So I guess the questions are, did those songs teach us about these great truths? About the fundamental of our faiths? Or just make it more accessible and acceptable by today's standard of songs?
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