Have you ever heard any one call a certain style of music "Devils Music"? I definitely have. It's usually used to describe music that has heavy and screeching guitar riffs, relentless double-bass drums, and overly feminine men screaming about who knows what...you know, the stuff Seiji listens to. (Love you Bro!)
"That sounds like the devils music!"...is a line I heard a lot growing up. And that was usually followed by me taking my tapes...yes TAPES (I'm old-school)out back and destroying them with my dads hammer! My parents would stand behind me and chant, "Take THAT Satan!!!" ...Ok, maybe they didn't do that.
The funny thing is, I always got caught. Every tape I had was discovered. I started wondering if my parents were recieving morse code from God telling them where my secret musical stash was! And then I would hear it. "Matt, we don't want that devil music in our house!" It's hammer time! No pun intended.
Let me get to my point.
First, a disclaimer: I'm not encouraging you to go behind your parents backs in any way. Whatever the rules of the house are...are the rules.
What I do want to ask is this...
If there really was a genre that we could call "Devils music", what would it be? What would it sound like?
I believe there is a lot of destructive messages in so much music today. But as I really think about it...as I read more about how Satan works, a different idea surfaces of what "Devil music" really is.
Satan will do whatever he can to kill, steal, and destroy what God creates and what ultimately glorifies our Lord.
I start to think that the Devils music isn't so much the music with the shredding solo that was written while the band was high on drugs... but more like worship music.
Not just worship music, but APATHETIC worship.
When we fail to give God the totality of who we are.
When instead of focusing on who He is and responding to what He's done...we remain unengaged and apathetic.
Satan knows if he can infiltrate our heart, mind, and souls, we will never be able to worship our God in spirit and in truth.
Worship through music...that to me is an important and often overlooked battleground.
And when our worship through music becomes apathetic, that's when it becomes "Devils Music".
