I wanted to be a stripper… until I became one.
Gods grace, despite Satan’s heavy hand.
Without Jesus WE ARE BRAINWASHED.
When I was younger I grew up listening to a lot of rap/hip hop music. I listened to it so much I knew every rap artist, song lyric, melody. Let’s just say, I was a little bit of a music fanatic. I listened to this type of music all the way up to a few years ago when I became a christian.
If you turn on the radio today, and turn to the rap/hip hop station, you’ll hear a lot of the same generalized ideas. They’ll be cursing, vulgar language, derogatory terms, the love of murder, sex and money,… etc. It’s horrible! If I were to listen to that today, being the christian that I am now, I would literally fall out of my chair with horror because that music is so dirty, ungodly and wrong. But like I mentioned earlier, if you caught me a few years ago, that would probably be my favorite song.
When we become brainwashed and numb. It’s almost not that bad anymore. It’s fun.
The reason I feel others and myself could possibly listen to that type of music is because we become brainwashed and numb to things we see and hear everyday. If you hear it on the radio station, you hear your friends singing it, you hear someone playing at a local party, over time your mindset will change… it becomes like nothing. It’s almost not that bad anymore. It’s fun.
This hip hop music is generated to over billions of people and these kids love it and suck it in. Just in 2020 alone studies showed that hip hop was the most popular genre.
I wanted to be a stripper. But then I saw just how broken those girls were.
I remember thinking to myself years ago that I wanted to be a stripper. I know…crazy, right? But it’s true. I wanted to be a stripper because I constantly got the impression from music, and the people who sung the music, that it was a life of easy money. I had this idea that being a stripper would offer me the lifestyle I never had. But like I’ve mentioned before in previous blogs, as humans we tend to fill our void with stuff that never really fills our void. So when times got hard instead of turning to Jesus I turned too stripping. When I auditioned, I saw just how broken those girls were, and how that “fun” lifestyle wasn’t really fun at all. Nobody was happy, smiling and enjoying money falling from the skies like I had seen in previous music videos. These women were empty and in pain. What was this? Why was I here?
Satans hand in Music.
Since I’ve become a christian, looking back I see just how much that type of music had an impact on me and my mindset. I also see how much Satan has his hands on the things around us. Especially music and the mindset that is sold within these top rap songs.
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.”
John 10:10 NKJV
Gods grace in all the mess.
As always, God promises he will finish the work that he started. Just like he did in me, I know he can do the same in any other person, especially those young girls who believe in those same lies. Stripping left me with low self esteem, scars, sadness and emptiness. I felt gross. It felt like an embarrassment when I was up on that stage . It never felt good despite all money that may come out of it.
But, through all of this I look at it all as just another example of how God can give me something better than riches, fame, sex, or any money.
God can give me that fulfillment because his work is already finished upon the cross.
Have a blessed day! Thanks for Reading!
Much love,
Alex
