So today marks the last day of my 30 day challenge. Challenge for what?
The challenge was that I had to listen only to Christian/Gospel/Worship music for 30 days. This was first proposed by KLOVE, the only radio station I listen to while I drive because it's the only station with continuously good music (it's also a consistent genre too, which is convenient when I'm driving). They asked people to try this challenge and see if there would be any change in their lives. People have given feedback regarding the challenge; some people have had their lives change but I think most have not.
To be honest, I didn't 100% listen to only Christian music - probably just 95% of the time. I listened to some Switchfoot and Mat Kearney who are Christians who produce music and have their lifestyles and music reflect their Christian beliefs, but they don't exactly produce Christian music. I didn't know if KLOVE would have counted that as Christian music, but I do. Otherwise, on my own, I probably only listened to two songs that weren't Christian - one of them was a Regina Spektor song from the Prince Caspian movie though, which is a story based on the Bible so.... I don't know, haha. Christian, but not completely.
Has anything changed in my life? To give a definitive answer, no, even as much as music is important to me. But I have noticed that strangely, I'm a little reluctant to return to listening to secular music. This whole time I feel like I've been on some high ledge, safe from scary and evil things below me. I'm not saying secular music is scary and evil, but I've just been feeling a lot more spiritually safe and protected - or rather, I've been reminded more of how spiritually safe and protected I am through Jesus. Christian music to me, is the most 'fulfilling' music for me, if you get what I mean. If my soul was a cup that could only be filled by things that were meaningful and of things that made my soul feel more complete, Christian music would be one of the few things that could actually fill it. Everything else would merely be something like liquid nitrogen - it would seem to have filled the cup but it's really just comparable to vapor and not filling. Sorry that was a strange metaphor.
Even though I am free to listen to secular music starting tomorrow, I think I'll begin listening to Christian music a lot more often than I used to before I started this challenge.
The challenge was that I had to listen only to Christian/Gospel/Worship music for 30 days. This was first proposed by KLOVE, the only radio station I listen to while I drive because it's the only station with continuously good music (it's also a consistent genre too, which is convenient when I'm driving). They asked people to try this challenge and see if there would be any change in their lives. People have given feedback regarding the challenge; some people have had their lives change but I think most have not.
To be honest, I didn't 100% listen to only Christian music - probably just 95% of the time. I listened to some Switchfoot and Mat Kearney who are Christians who produce music and have their lifestyles and music reflect their Christian beliefs, but they don't exactly produce Christian music. I didn't know if KLOVE would have counted that as Christian music, but I do. Otherwise, on my own, I probably only listened to two songs that weren't Christian - one of them was a Regina Spektor song from the Prince Caspian movie though, which is a story based on the Bible so.... I don't know, haha. Christian, but not completely.
Has anything changed in my life? To give a definitive answer, no, even as much as music is important to me. But I have noticed that strangely, I'm a little reluctant to return to listening to secular music. This whole time I feel like I've been on some high ledge, safe from scary and evil things below me. I'm not saying secular music is scary and evil, but I've just been feeling a lot more spiritually safe and protected - or rather, I've been reminded more of how spiritually safe and protected I am through Jesus. Christian music to me, is the most 'fulfilling' music for me, if you get what I mean. If my soul was a cup that could only be filled by things that were meaningful and of things that made my soul feel more complete, Christian music would be one of the few things that could actually fill it. Everything else would merely be something like liquid nitrogen - it would seem to have filled the cup but it's really just comparable to vapor and not filling. Sorry that was a strange metaphor.
Even though I am free to listen to secular music starting tomorrow, I think I'll begin listening to Christian music a lot more often than I used to before I started this challenge.
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