Dear Secular Artists,
Please stop singing about love. This sensation that you seem unable to divert your attentions from is not love, but simple passion and instinct-based lust. You want that man or woman, but you clearly do not love them enough to actually commit and put a ring on it. You are driven by passion, but I can tell you that even in all of your money and glamour and fans, you fight a nagging sense of hollowness and despair that nothing you do or buy or write can make disappear. This emptiness is the absence of Christ in your heart and the stress and drain of running a self-perpetuated life. Man was not made to live without God. It’s time you realized this.
Why do you idolize love? I think I know. I believe that you feel a natural desire for God’s love — one that He created you with —but you don’t know where to put it or what to do with it. Man was made to love God, but you don’t know God, and therefore have no one to love rightly. Thus you misplace your love and throw it helter skelter all around. Love as you know it has not only become an idol to you, but it has also been twisted from its original pure form into a darker and distorted reflection.
But there is still hope for you. You can still take a sad song and make it better. You can turn your life around and use your influential position to speak life. The whole world listens to you — give them something wholesome to hear! You don’t have to go through life with nothing to believe in. Sure, it might be good right now, but fame only lasts so long. Money only goes so far, and you can’t take your popularity to the Judgement Seat. God is not impressed.
All that love you sing about? Give it to Christ.
Christians are renewed. As a Christian, you don’t have to worry when things go wrong. You can simply rest on Jesus, knowing that He’s got it all under control. As a Christian, you can experience real and true peace, the kind that you must long for. Christ is the answer to the hollowness that you have been feeling. With Christ, you can simply sit still and let it be.
So what do you do if you choose to follow my advice? Well, you are in a position of great influence, and God has blessed you with the ability to reach millions of people at once. Use that talent. Speak to the masses and urge them not to listen to the lies of the world, telling them instead what God says. Sure, if you’re not one of the hugely popular stars out there the world can just stop playing your music on the radios, but you can break through it. Another thing that Christ gives you is resolve— resolve never to back down and to always keep pushing, no matter what happens. And the world will ignore the difference if you are one of those amazingly-popular-and-everyone-knows-your-name kind of stars. For a while they’ll just close their eyes and act like nothing changed at all. But in the end they will be forced to listen. And the radios can’t tune you out, because people will notice and say, “Hey, what happened to (insert your name)?” You have the opportunity to be a light to many: don’t waste it! And, congratulations… you can now start singing about love again.
While you’re writing your new music, I’d suggest finding a church to attend that has solid theology and a Kingdom-oriented view. Try to find one that you won’t be pestered with the constant, “Is that?” And the, “I didn’t know he/she was a Christian!” A smaller church would probably work better for you. ( You could even try mine if you wanted to.) But there is one thing that you shouldn’t do: do not serve on the worship team! You don’t want to become a draw to people who aren’t really Christian and just want a free concert from whoever you are. Church is church, not a concert. Don’t be a stumbling block.
But please, if you remain unconvinced by my previous arguments, let Christ fill your emptiness. Let Him give you purpose, because He does have a purpose for you. You only have to choose to follow it. Please, anyone and everyone can speak to people and give them God’s light and truth. You don’t have to be a rock star. We’re told this is the golden age– let’s make it the golden age. If everyone simply started making little acts of righteousness, we could change the world for Christ.
Don’t you want that?