Popular music and entertainment contains a hidden death-wish.
The desperate pleasure-seeking and self-destructive substance abuse encouraged in venues and pubs and in our popular culture leads to a burnt-out emptiness.
But faith can lead us to a life-wish.
Love for the real God is life and health.
To be enfolded in His loving embrace is to love life and goodness.
"What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it." John 1:3-5 (NRSV)
"'I am the bread of life.'" John 6:48 (NRSV)
"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city." Revelation 22:1,2 (NRSV)
So throw away your death music and come out of the darkness.
Love God and love your neighbor.
Your love will be requited.
And your heart will be alive!
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.}
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