A Chance To Feel Alive

One of my favorite songs in the whole entire world is "Metalingus" by a rock group called Alter Bridge. Whenever you guys get a chance, go on YouTube, it's a real song. The song is talking about a man who has stopped being indecisive about his life and is ready to make a change in his life. He's tired of allowing himself being held back by society, people, and the fear of being who he is supposed to be. I think that many of us are scared of being who we know we are supposed to be. Instead of having our own identity, we rather choose to be like the others around us. No style or flavor of our own. We're just doing and living like how everybody is. We're clones of another person's fame, riches, and opinion. However, we know deep inside we are living a lie. We have become slaves to the status quo, that is, what is acceptable in another man's eyes than what is acceptable in God's eyes. Therefore, we miss our destiny; thereby riddled by regret, shame, and disappointments. We live a bound life unfulfilled and we become "cool" with it. Instead of going for that promotion on our job, we allow fear, insecurities, and what others have to say keep us from walking in our full potential. Instead of taking on opportunities to leave our hometown, we stay there like a bunch of dummies and watch the world pass us by. Many of us are bound by loyalties to others who care less for you than you really think. This could be church that may have helped you in the inception of your faith but year later has sucked you dry; thereby conforms you into an image full of hypocrisy, mediocrity, stagnation, religiosity, and the list goes on. Maybe we are stuck in a relationship with someone we're courting but no commitment of marriage will ever happen, just loveless "relations" that soothe the body but not the soul or spirit. Maybe we are friends with people who we grew up with an fat first was all good but now has become a cancer; especially when they want you to ride which them to rob that store. So many things and situations are keeping us from living a complete and free life. Freedom from religion, freedom from seeking validation by others, freedom from the guidelines of society set to only control us, and freedom from the chains of fear. Fear is our greatest enemy in American society because we are indoctrinated to maintain an image that is only a mask in this life of the masquerade. Wow. That's a sad life to live. God didn't give us life to live a life that's bound. Jesus came to give us a life that's abundant (in good times and the bad). It's given that we become the image and people we are supposed to be in the first place, not what men want and groom us to be. I can say this from person experience that I allowed this happen but now I'm free. Now it's a chance to truly be alive. I pray that we get off the road of slavery and bondage and that we get on the journey to "complete freedom." I hope you all take heed to this. Let's be free and take the opportunities afforded to us: things that others before us envisioned but died without experiencing (Matthew 13:17). Real talk son, no bull, this is the time, our time and chance to feel alive!!!

Til next time, my friends, from "The Ventilator......"

Reference:
Galatians 5:1

And of course, go on YouTube and find Metalingus (with lyrics). This song will "bless you."