you never know who's listening

yesterday a few of us who are christians, as well as a Jehova's Witness were on the train discussing the latest verson of the ten commandments showing on abc this week. just in case anyone is wondering, the general opinion of the show was it wasn't worth watching. i personally thought it had some really bad acting and it didn't stay true to the bible. that's a big surprise (said w/sarcasm). honestly i thought it was garbage. anyway, from there we discussed the movie "The Passion of the Christ" and went on to some other topics, like purity, music, and the influence of porn, even within the body of Christ. just as we got to my stop, a woman came up to us and said it was so pleasant to hear people talking about our Lord Jesus Christ unashamedly on the train. she said it was refreshing. it turned out that one of the people in our group goes to the same church as her. she was getting off at the same stop as me, so i caught up with her and asked her if we were too loud and she said we weren't any louder than anyone else having a conversation. she just happened to be close enough to hear what we were talking about and was glad to hear that kind of a conversation. it felt so good to hear that, it gave me chills. they were different chills though, can't explain it, just real good chills...lol. i told her that two years ago i wouldn't have been having that kind of conversation on the train. it kinda gave me a glimpse of where i was and where i am now. it's my desire to grow and mature in the Lord and it was my prayer just about two years ago at the altar in church. i told God i was tired of living off of milk and wanted to move on to meat. wow...did He ever answer that prayer!! i'll have to go into detail on another post. but it was nice to get a compliment from someone instead of weird or annoyed looks that we get sometimes when we talk about God or church.

another good thing about yesterday was i was listening to my mp3 player and one of the guys asked me what i was listening to. this gave me an opportunity to try and turn him away from listening to secular music. we've talked about it before and i made a cd for him that he really enjoyed. so i let him know that i had expanded my horizons and found other artist besides cross movement to listen to. he even remembered the name of the group, which surprised me. i already started making a new cd for him a week or two ago and i asked him if it was ok yesterday and he was all for it. so hopefully i'll have it done by friday and i'll see him and can pass it on to him. i'm very particular about the cd's i make for people. i usually have the person i'm making it for in mind, in terms of their personality and there's usually a message hidden in the cd. he knows that so much of what is being played on the radio is Godless and really doesn't promote a lifestyle that would be pleasing to God. hopefully this'll influence him some more to turn from it. he loves rap, so maybe i can get him really turned on to christian rap and he'll see that christian rappers have skills and they glorify God in their music, not money, sex, drugs, violence or themselves! i'm working on the cd now, but i haven't been to happy with the flow, so i'm gonna work out the kinks today and tomorrow.

by the way, if i haven't mentioned it already, i LOVE timothy brindle's cd killing sin!! for me it is such a convicting cd, at some points in listening to it, it made me sad cuz i could see that i still had a long way to go in my walk. but its an excellent cd and right now, i know its early but i'd say its my favorite cd for '06. it flows well, the beats are hot, the lyrics are hot and overall it flows really well. it's almost like listening to a story. if you love christian hip hop, its a must have!! shai linne's cd "the Solo Christus project". after that i'll get "the great awakening" by timothy brindle then i'm not sure what i'll get next. i just listened to the snippets for Genocide by the Yunion and i'll admit i was sleepin on that cd till i heard the snippets!! arrrgghhh!! so much to catch up on! i'm not worried about it...in time....in time.