Question:
How can music affect your mind and life?

Answer:
While a great deal could be said on this topic, let us focus on one point. Notice Colossians 3:16: “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.” In this verse singing is a wonderful means of teaching, learning, and remembering. If the words express verses or truths of Scripture, are positive and uplifting, then music can affect our minds and lives in a most positive and uplifting way. Equally, if the words of the music we listen to express blasphemous, immoral, sinful ideas and actions, then our minds and lives will be instructed and affected accordingly. Listening to music that glorifies evil will deaden our sensitivity to evil. In contrast, the Holy Spirit exhorts us, “Abhor that which is evil” (Romans 12:9).