LORD GIVE ME A SIGN- pay attention to the message and not the messenger

What inspired this entry this morning was hearing several people talk badly about DMX's newest single and video 'Lord Give Me A Sign.' It has even been said its not Jesus Walks by Kanye West, we tend to compare things and people instead of seeing them for what they are.
Lets be real a lot of these same people complained when they heard Jesus Walks, then brought the album. Both songs serve a purpose and when we listen to the message and stop looking at the messenger. This song will be felt by the youth who can relate to the angst and frustration and even desperation in the lyrics. I much rather hear my 16 year old daughter and the youth of today running around singing Lord Give Me a Sign or Jesus Walks than Laffy Taffy, I Love My B@#*#, E-40's new single coming out White Gyrl which is a catchy tune about Cocaine.

Let me take your hand, Guide me,

I walk slow, Stay right beside me

The devils tryna find me, hide me

Hold up I take that back

Protect me & give me the strength to fight back

LORD GIVE ME A SIGN

Lord Give Me A Sign will reach even more than Jesus Walks cause urban kids and even many over the age of 21 in anyhood USA who feel hopeless, who feel alone, who know the Lord but still have an inner struggle, a fight between good and bad inside them. This is and will become their theme song. This song will reach those in the streets that a Jesus Walks or today's Gospel by Kirk Franklin or Yolanda Adams wont. Those who don't know the Lord and those who aint in anybodies church. If you look past DMXs various arrest and trouble he has been in, this is a positive song for the youth to be singing. Some of the lyrics that come out his mouth may make you not want your child tgo listen to his entire album, but there is alwasy a clean copy and any one of his fans can tell you every album has had a prayer and thats how he ends each show on stage in prayer.

This song is for those who have been in the same struggle the lost as well as those children that are basically good, grew up in church and have to deal with the temptations the youth face. The struggle to be good and a christian in the crazy world we live in, where it is much easier to do bad.

When most adults have nothing good to sat about today's hip-hop, with its misogynistic and gangsta and greed infested lyrics, Lord Gives Me A Sign should give you a sign of what God is doin thru hip-hop. It wont happen over night and it wouldn't have the impact if every record had the same message. Like Kanye West 'Jesus Walks' would not have been as successful if Kanye did not do what he does on the rest of the cuts. An album full of Jesus Walks wouldn't not have sold as much or had the impact. He would not have been invited to perform it at all these big award shows, where many outside his demographic would be exposed to it. Same can be said about Lord Give Me A Sign. The bible is full of supporting characters that many said not him or her, how can they be... Same is true now.

So listen to the message and stop looking at the messenger. Actually take a minute and listen to the lyrics, the thing that bothered most was the people complaining about the record confessed they didnt know the song lyrics.

That concludes my rant for today

peace and blessings

AJ Woodson