Art is not the world...

I've been enthralled by Showbread's song "Stabbing Art to Death" for a while now. It's not just because Reese Roper sings backup vocals, but it does help. The song sheds some light on Josh Dies lyrical genius, but more so than that it shows that someone finally gets it. The lyrics state that "art is not the world," it leads one to wonder what art is then. Art is a tool. The song further goes to state, "Father, you inspire me to sing to you."Music and art is not what we're all here for, music and art are for the purpose of bringing worship, and glory to God.

When "Christians" state that they are not musicians for the ministry but for the art it kind of bothers me. Overall, I'm not here to judge them, I can't do that on a righteous level, and that is not my goal. I don't get it. When did music switch from something that we use to worship God, to just being something that we worship in place of God. I am not saying that a "Christian" can only write songs about God, I am not saying that "Christian's" have to write songs about God at all even. I just don't understand why a "Christian" would use music for their own fame and glory, when in the end it doesn't matter. Our own fame and glory mean absolutely nothing.

While I was in Rwanda earlier this summer, I spent a lot of time playing guitar. Most of it spent in worship of God. Our second night in Kigali, we met up with the nursing team and we spent some time in worship, and followed it with prayer. What happened is that K. White (Director of ISP) has us split up where one person from the nursing team and one person from the social justice team would come together and pray for each other. The nursing team was at the end of their trip, the social justice team at the beginning. I'll never forget what the person who prayed over me said. It was a girl that I had never met before, but she prayed that she could see that God was going to use my ability to play guitar in amazing ways both inside and outside of Rwanda. I have constantly been praying that I would be using music for God's glory and that alone, because when I die it won't matter how many records I sell, no one will care.