One In A Million

So one of the main places I find out about cool music is from friends...And Sarah Pocket Spice just happened to share this artist with me the other day and we listened to him some in the car. She actually just recently wrote a blog about his songs..they have uplifting lyrics that make you think but they're also put to a fun beat which always makes things better. He goes by Lecrae and I really like his stuff the more I listen to it!

Anyway, one particular lyric from a song off his new album made me think. It's a preacher talking in the background and you don't always catch it if you're not listening closely. In fact, I was just groovin' along to it and Sarah had to tell me what it had said! I'm glad she pointed it out to me! Here's what it said:

"You're just a conformist if you're drunk and naked driving around on the back of a motorcycle smoking cigarettes and breaking commandments. Everyone's doing that, it's so tired. If you really wanna be a rebel, read your Bible, cause no one's doing that. That's rebellion, that's the only rebellion left."

That just really hit me! That's exactly right. I used to be a part of that scene..or at least I thought I was. But now I just realize I was too afraid to be a rebel and stand out of the crowd. I still have alot of friends who think it's cool or going to "solve all their problems" to go out drinking on the weekends. Your boyfriend breaks up with you? Get drunk this weekend. You get a bad grade on a test? Let's have a party to drink our cares away. Your parents are being hard on you? Alcohol will solve all your problems. I listen to some of my friends and my peers and I just feel really sad for them! This is all that you have to hope for to fill that void in your heart?

Alot of these people are all the same..they look at you like an outcast if you don't drink or "party" on the weekends. It's SO easy to go along with the crowd and do that kind of thing, especially if you're the only one not doing it. It takes work, HARD work to say no to those temptations if that's all you surround yourself with.

Only recently have I been able to see has God worked a miracle in me through friends, through music, through so many special people and events...I now have the courage to be a rebel for him, to do something that not everyone else is doing. Am I going to be looked at as weird? Definitely! In fact I have been many times. But am I going to be richly rewarded for it in spending eternity with my heavenly Father who cares for me like no other? Absolutely. And I thank him every day for His grace greater than all my sins.