Stop Lyin’ on God! November 11, 2009

Yeah, so I know it’s been a month of Sundays since I started this thing, but now I actually have something to write about…

Picture it. Detroit. Around 6:00pm today…

I’d been having “moments’ recently of thinking about “love lost”. Don’t front! I know I’m not the only one who does it! You sit, you wonder what life would be like if you two had “made it”, maybe even do a quick facebook/twitter/google search for them (but you don’t call them or anything, ’cause THAT would be crazy and stalkerish).

**Crickets**???

Oh, you don’t do that? It’s only me?…Okay, well I digress…

So, I’m sitting in my office thinking about how extremely wack it is of me to be having these thoughts, so I have the bright idea to listen to a song that I think will empower me and get my back on track. What song did I choose you ask?

Silly by Deniece Williams

Yeah, yeah, I know-that’s the jam right?! Well…

I’m listening to this song, feeling good, coming out of that mayhem and foolishness in my head, then my ears hone in on the a certain phrase in the song. The part that everyone knows even if they don’t know any other words to the song. “Oh-oh-oh love, oh love, stop making a fool of meeee.”

Wait! Whoa! Pump the breaks! I immediately got a check in my spirit on that one!

I heard something inside of me say “Why are you lying on God like that? He wouldn’t make a fool of you.” I have the convo with my biffster about this.  We have this running joke about our (well, my current, her former) church and our Bishop. We get so much of the Word of God there that even when you’re not thinking about it, that Word will well up on the inside of you when something is wrong, then you’ll get all internally stank like “That ain’t the Word”.

I got two things from that convo and some thinking about it later.

A:) God is love -1 John 4:8

B:) If we believe that A is true, that God is love, then things that are not of love cannot be of God. So we lie one Him when we accuse him of things that aren’t loving. -Love doesn’t hurt. Love isn’t blind. Love doesn’t make a fool of us. Love doesn’t stink! If its not true about God, its not true about love.
I think that we make conscious decisions and when those decisions don’t work out the way we want or expect, we blame love.

“Why do we love love, when love seems to hate us?” Imagine if you replaced that with God…”Why do we love God when God seems to hate us?” Okay, okay, I know most of us don’t think God hates us, but how many of us (including myself on occasion) have sung Lions, Tigers and Bears by Jazmine Sullivan at the top of our lungs? I understand the sentiment, but we gotta be more cognizant of what we’re speaking over our lives and what we allow to form our psyche.

Now before you get all up in arms, I’m not saying that all secular songs are bad.  I listen to secular songs, but there is a caveat. I, personally cannot listen to a song when there is clear evidence that the song is out-of-pocket or doesn’t line up with God’s Word or I know to be true about His character.My friends will tell you, there are quite a few songs that I hate because the premise of the song is so foul to me (“You’re Gonna Love Me” comes to mind)…but some are not so easy. Lions, Tigers and Bears is my SONG! I totally understand the sentiment. I can empathize with the feeling, but I feel dumb for listening to it when it gets to that part…because it doesn’t ring true in my spirit. So I usually end up listening to it, pretending like I don’t know what’s coming and then feel salty when I force myself to change the station.

What I am saying is why do we sing songs and accept certain things when we KNOW better? I think it’s because we don’t like to think critically. The proverbial “head in the sand” defense.  “Oh, I like the song and I know she don’t mean it like that.” “I’m not so weak-minded that I let that get to me”…Oh, but we do…It seeps in little by little and you end up at your desk grooving to a song that is not REALLY edifying you or truly helping your situation.

Okay, so maybe I’m the only “weak-minded” one who’s susceptible to inadvertently allow her ideologies to be formed by the music and culture I allow into my mind and heart. I’ll own my junk…but just in case you feel the depth of my plight, I challenge you…Take a look at what you’re listening to/reading/watching. Think critically about what those verses/words/lines are saying and see if they line up with what you know to be true. If they don’t line up with the TRUTH, let it go, because ultimately what good is it doing to think that love is making a fool of us?

Your thoughts?

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