Souls aren't made of stone

Do you ever wake up in the morning with a song stuck in your head? I do, pretty much every morning. Probably because music is my inspiration for everything. I listen to music when I'm posting blogs, I listen to music when I'm writing stories, I listen to music while thinking deeply, I listen to music while doing difficult math, and I listen to music when I go to sleep. I tried doing that last night, putting on my dad's old fashioned headphones and turning on Switchfoot. Buuut as I said in an earlier post, I can only lay with my head facing directly upward or the plastic things that cover my ears will hurt me. T.T I couldn't go to sleep like that, so when I was half asleep I got frustrated and yanked the offensive thing off my head.

A lot of people think that the song "4:12" by Switchfoot is about materialism. That does make a small amount of sense, if you look at the second verse, which talks about this character having lowly jobs. But that's taking it out of context. If you look at the entire song, it gets confusing. Abbey, who's pretty apt at picking the meanings out of songs, told me that she thought it was about how people are fickle--everything's fine and dandy with their faith until something bad happens. I think maybe it's a little bit of both, but those ideas are just pieces of the bigger picture that Jon is trying to bring across here.

Ever since the dawn of atheism, the God-haters have been spinning the lie that there is no afterlife. There's no deeper meaning to our lives. We're just a byproduct of biological slime and a wayward bolt of lightning. We're just an accident. We don't have souls. There's no afterlife, no reward for working hard and fighting the good fight. Do you realize how worthless that makes people feel?? I mean, think of all the people who have lowly jobs. Like waiting tables or selling phones at the shopping mall. Those people can just be replaced by other lowly people. So when someone gets depressed, they think, "Oh, well I don't matter much in the world. I'm not making a difference. There's no meaning in my life. When I die, I'm just gonna go 'poof,' so why keep living when the going gets tough?" Can you imagine how many people are out there who have died because of this way of thinking? Or worse, how many people have turned to crime or drugs or sex because they thought it didn't matter?

But you see, we are more than material. This humanism thing that the God-haters have going on, it's nonsensical! Oh, they try to tell us that the idea of an afterlife is nonsensical, that their idea is what makes sense. That's because they don't want to deal with God or an afterlife, because if they do, that means they have to pay for all the scrap they've done! Heaven forbid (pun intended) that! Why do you think I say "When the only sense is nonsense, don't try to make sense of it"? That's one of many reasons!

God created you for a purpose. He's got your whole life planned out, from beginning to end, and He had it planned out when He created the universe! You're not just mutated, electrified slime; your soul isn't stone. You're a person. And inside you, there is a living breathing soul. There is deeper meaning to life. Everything that happens has a reason. If you're that busboy or that guy selling cell phones in the shopping mall, put your hope in the fact that you're not there for nothing. God has something planned for your life. You matter. That's what I'm always telling Zack, that's what I'm always telling Mari, that's what I'm always telling Abbey. In this life, there are no accidents. Remember that next time you feel worthless. ;D