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The following is a song by the band, Sent By Ravens. You may or may not have heard of them. They’re an alternative Christian metal band, very much in the vein of Story of the Year, with scream vocals, crunching guitars and heavy drums. The name of the song is “Mean What You Say” and the words are very reflective of what we see today.

Every inch we talk

They make a sound, we walk

You better mean what you say

You better mean what you say

Less God, more gun

They aim for the heart, but we ain't got one

You better mean what you say

You better mean what you say

 

I don't need to hurt with my hands

I could find some value, destroy it with my mouth

Hey, could you ever love again?

 

From the womb, we're taught

You make a sound, I walk

You better mean what you say

You better mean what you say

With words like drugs

We speak 'em hard like we know what one does

You better mean what you say

You better mean what you say

 

I don't need to hurt with my hands

I could find some value, destroy it with my mouth

Hey, could you ever love again?

 

I regret the things I've said

Could you ever love again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GyXvsEO-7Q

Think about what they’re trying to convey in that song. “Every inch we talk, they make a sound, we walk. You better mean what you say. You BETTER mean what you say”.

It’s a warning. It’s saying, “THINK about everything you say, before you say it, and make sure you REALLY mean what’s about to come out of your mouth.” And they repeat this twice. The first time...just to put it out there, and then they say it again…just in case you didn’t comprehend it the first time.

The next verse is even more powerful: “Less God, more gun. They aim for the heart, but we ain't got one. You better mean what you say…You BETTER mean what you say”

To a lot of us, it’s no coincidence that as God has become less and less accepted in our society, not only has the violence increased, but our hearts have become harder. But there’s more to it than just that. Think of all the mass shootings we’ve seen the past few years. Regular people just going about their everyday lives, and suddenly without warning, they are gunned down by a person full of hate. And everybody wonders why it’s happening, and what would possess a person to do such a thing, but the reality is, that person with the gun could be any of us. The potential to hate, the desire to kill is in every human being. We’re all born into sin, it all just depends on what happens to a person that sends them over the edge. And the person with that gun will shoot someone who most likely has not done anything to them, but the person that’s being shot is just as capable of pulling that trigger as any other human being if they experience traumas in life that send them over the edge.

“But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” Matthew 15:18-19

Please watch for the 3^rd and final part of this series tomorrow. Until then, God bless.

Find Part 1 here: http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=186461