We were watching American Idol on DVR last night as we had not gotten time to watch it during the week. Jaimie Foxx was the mentor this week and as I am a big fan of his, I listened to every word he had to say. There was a part of the show where he said to the audience that he asked each contestant if they wanted to be a singer or an artist and that was an important question for each of them to answer. I was thinking about how this fits so well with our Christian walk. Often times, we end up just being a singer and not an artist.
This is how I connect singer and artist to our walks. A singer is a person who takes a song and sings the lyrics but never puts their own personality, strengths, or emotion into the song. An artist is someone who not only sings the song but brings themselves into it, changes it to reflect their personality, and fills it with appropriate emotion. Webster Defines both as such:
Singer: One that sings (no kidding, it was this short)
Artist: 1. One skilled or versed in learning arts. 2. One who professes and practices an imaginative art. 3. A skilled performer 4. One who is adept at something.
This really tugged at my spirit because we can just be "singers" who say we are Christians and do all the movements (like singing) or we can be an "artist" who not only professes but practices our Christian walk. I think it's important for all of us to look at whether we are just "singers" or are we "artists" in practicing God's love to this world. American Idol taught me something this week, okay, well Jaimie did!
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