Music Monday

A new music video from Beyonce was leaked recently.  The title of her latest, sure to be a hit, song is Bow Down.  In the song, Beyonce tells her competition to "Bow down, b*tches."  Apparently she wants everyone to know that she's more than just Jay-Z's wife and Blue Ivy's mom -- she's still the great Beyonce (and her alter-ego, Sasha Fierce).

Something, actually lots of things, about the video rubbed me the wrong way.  I mean really rubbed me the wrong way -- in much the same was that the older IBM commercials that used the tagline "I Am" bugged me.  Beyonce telling everyone to bow down to her seemed to me to be like giving the middle finger to the only one who has the right to demand that mankind bow down to Him in worship and reverence.

Beyonce may think she is the ultimate female artist.  She may even think she is the greatest woman/human on the planet.  But God's word tells us that the day is coming, and coming soon, when, "at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Phil 2:11

When K was a little girl, she loved the woman who sings this song, Twila Paris.  Life for K and all of us was a lot simpler then.  But then, as now, Jesus is worthy of our worship and our praise, and He is the only one to whom we should bow down.