'Gospel Song of the Year'

Good Day Friends trust you are doing good?

Was just checking through the list of nominations during an awards ceremony recently, I came across this category that startled me a bit and somewhat made me laugh, ‘Gospel Song of the Year’. This though wasn’t my first time of seeing this, but it rather jumped out of the page this particular time. Then the question popped up in me that what exactly qualifies a song to win this award?

Now, the Life of a Christian should be one of worship, and one way through which a man can be led into worship is through songs, it’s a tool given to man by God to serve as a channel leading us into worship and filling the thought of man with that of God.
Knowing this, is it now that the recipient of the award is that song that leads men into worship faster or the one that gets us into a deeper realm of worship? I don’t just get it.

 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. " - (Colosians 3:16)

I’m not against awards, not at all, but it’s just that nowadays many Christian artistes sing only with the aim of getting awards forgetting the reason why God really called them, to become WORSHIP LEADERS. So these awards tend to shift the gaze of men and distract our focus.

And to us the hearers of Christian music, let it not be the beat or any other thing that informs our basis for listening to music, but let it be our will to be led into worship, and live out the true lifestyle we have been called to live.


God Help Us all. 


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