The
Importance of Communication
Communication must start long
before the teen years. I think God created music to be efficacious, but of
course then Satan also uses this to his own advantage. Teens in their turbulent
years get attached to this song or that song which helps to shape their
identity. The effect of music that God created to be very good is now used by
Satan to pull young people away from truth and their authority structure. As
teens become attached to music that is ungodly, the wedge between them and
their parents is driven deeper teens becomes more shaped by their music than by
the Godly influence that could be in their lives. Of course, parents often do
not respond in love which only drives the wedge deeper and makes the separation
greater.
I wonder if music hasn’t been
used as kind of a smokescreen by Christian parents to hide the real problem.
Parents lose the hearts of their children and music looks like the culprit.
True, music may have helped fuel the separation and rebellion, but the real
battle is often lost before their children’s addiction to harmful styles of music.
If parents could keep the hearts of their children during the pre-teen years
and as they enter and go through their teen years, they could help steer them
away from ungodly music before the children get caught up in it.
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