Killing
Me Softly With His Song
Tails from the Farm
1
Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around
like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
“You can’t make it.” You don’t have
what it takes!” “You’re too tall, too skinny, too
fat.” “No one cares about you.” “GOD DOESN’T
CARE ABOUT YOU!” Does this sound like the same song and second verse of
your life these days? All you have to do to confirm these ideas is read the
nearest bookstand best-sellers or the grocery checkout magazines.
There’s always something to read that will finally help us lose
that last ten pounds or finally make people like us. There’s
plenty of self-help writings, gurus, checklists, and “documented”
results to finally make us happy. Wait! The question I want to
ask is, “Who’s singing this song?” Who’s whispering
these words of defeat and demise and prompting us to run around the gerbil
wheel to find the utopia of which we’ve always dreamed?
We
love to play “name that tune” around our house. It’s amazing
how many artists can resemble another one. The true singer of a song can be
elusive. Well, let’s call out the author of all of this low-level
lewdness. The devil is singing this song, softly, hoping we’ll
listen to it long enough that we don’t ever realize it’s stealing
away our very life.
If
you have ever struggled with depressing thoughts floating through your head,
start to ask yourself, “Who’s singing to me?” Decide right
now to start listening more closely to what God is saying to you. It
won’t be long before your heart begins to straighten out your head. You’ll
begin to recognize the singer and his ugly song before he gets two notes out.
And the Real Musician will take over; with the greatest song ever
written…I love you, just the way you are.
Jennifer
Biblical Meditation: Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is
with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will
quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.