I spent my teen years…those days when a guy can relate to those sentimental songs…at a time when love songs were sweet and beautiful.

War years when songs like “I’ll Be Seeing You…When the Lights Go On all over the World…Moonlight Serenade…Stardust…and many more songs talked of love without cursing and implying that drinking and one-night stands were life’s goals.

The other day, I happened to listen to a few lines by a popular singer, and apparently the name of the song was “Rolling With the Flow.” The line “Jesus loves me, this I know” came through, but as the song continued, it seems that the singer was taking this to mean, in his words, “raising hell just like I did.” Jesus loves Him, but Jesus won’t accept his or her sins.

He’s going to have a sad awakening, if he doesn’t change his ways. He’ll wake up in that hell he’s singing about. The Bible is very clear, in many different passages, that whoremongers, adulterers, whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, fornicators, evil thoughts, witchcraft, hatred, envying, drunkenness…these and more will not enter Heaven. Rather, our goals should be love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance and more of the good things indicate that a person is living for Christ.

Needless to say, a person looking for a life partner…one who won’t put drinking and drugs ahead of wife and family…is not likely to be found after midnight in a saloon. If you’re listening and are wishing for a better life, you may be looking in all the wrong places. Think about it.

37BT Bill Thornton December 28, 2007