Hating the things you once loved (as a non-Christian)

[DuckieLady]

After becoming a true practicing Christian, did you ever feel like there were things that you used to love (music, movies, whatever) that you can no longer stand?

I was going through some old music to get some feelings because I'm all out and I couldn't resonate to any of the old stuff besides a few songs from The Civil Wars and a couple other things. The rest just feels dead.

That's probably a good thing but I'm craving some kind of "passion" or "creativity" that feels pretty stolen away from me probably because I can't play guitar right now. Not like I'm good or anything, but that was like my outlet that couldn't be taken away, because I'd rather die than look at a paintbrush and I'd rather listen to a fork in a blender for seven hours than write anything creative.

 

[TLHKAJ]

I came to the Lord at age 13 and I'm now in my late 40's. Before I cane to Christ, I watched soap operas and listened to country and some rock music. After I came to Christ, my tastes changed, but I wasn't told that the old things should be put away. I immediately had a strong desire for Christian/Gospel music, but I occasionally still listened to worldly music. But one day, I fell asleep on my bed listening to rock music on the radio and when a certain song came on, satan attacked me through thar song. It literally shook me and that was the moment my eyes were opened and I knew I was done with the world's music. My appetite was completely changed. I don't have a desire for soap operas, most movies (I do watch some true stories and Christian movies), or unwholesome music. My taste in Christian music has expanded from hymns, southern, bluegrass, and country gospel to include praise and worship and such. Idk if that answers your question.

 

[Pearl]

I've given up watching all 'soaps' and anything 'dark' on TV - which is a lot these days.

 

[2nd Timothy Group]

After becoming a true practicing Christian, did you ever feel like there were things that you used to love (music, movies, whatever) that you can no longer stand?

Yep. I've got over a couple of thousand movies (used to have an actual theater in my home) and many of them were chosen specifically for their sexual content. I still have them, simply because I haven't taken the time to sort through them, keeping the ones that mean something to me. But now having been changed by Christ, I have no interest in watching them, and more, I am disgusted by my former actions. (I collected many of those movies while married - a way to still have some sense of porn, but within the movies that we would watch.)

 

[DuckieLady]

I can relate to some of these. Music used to be a big deal to me and still is but seems 95% is no longer audible to me. The old radio mysteries vary. Sometimes they're fine or sometimes I have to hit skip. I can't watch fictional murder films but I do watch real stories and study their behavior and psychology, because I've been around some cracked eggs and I want to know when it's a good sign that somebody is about to be up to no good.

Having some sense of awareness of my surroundings makes me feel more in control.

Hope that makes sense. Kind of out of it today.

 

[Hidden In Him]

After becoming a true practicing Christian, did you ever feel like there were things that you used to love (music, movies, whatever) that you can no longer stand?

I was going through some old music to get some feelings because I'm all out and I couldn't resonate to any of the old stuff besides a few songs from The Civil Wars and a couple other things. The rest just feels dead.

That's probably a good thing but I'm craving some kind of "passion" or "creativity" that feels pretty stolen away from me probably because I can't play guitar right now. Not like I'm good or anything, but that was like my outlet that couldn't be taken away, because I'd rather die than look at a paintbrush and I'd rather listen to a fork in a blender for seven hours than write anything creative.

Movies with useless, gratuitous foul language and vulgar references that aren't even funny is something I can't tolerate well. I was also into thrash and even death metal when I got saved, and I certainly have no tolerance for that, I don't care what the words are.

But other things - as far as creative expressions - I have never dropped. I still like numerous forms of secular rock music, and I enjoy what many believers might refer to as "off color" comedy. I can't say as I could completely stand by what I listen to or watch as being a proper standard, and even sometimes fear I might be setting too loose an example. But I am what I am, and prefer to be honest even in my present state. I fully believe He will make of me what He desires in His good time, so for the present I just try to be myself and trust that He will keep doing that work until He finishes it.

 

[quietthinker]

Yup, things change and continue to change.... habits and understanding. I have learned not to give the devil a foothold because I suffer.
Now, these things have to do with anything which destroys my physical and emotional health and spiritual orientation. Sure, I no longer desire to smoke or ingest poisons or participate in the dissipation I once sought out but I do do battle with sex, and the nature of that battle is calling on the Lord right at the outset of catching myself desiring a path that from experience leads me to regret and ultimately disorientation.

I would have thought that the desire for sex gets less as one lives more days but that's not my experience. I have learned as a single man that if I feed that tiger it'll bite me....I know that! I know that! I know that! ....as with any habit or practice that dances on deaths floor.

 

[2nd Timothy Group]

Yup, things change and continue to change.... habits and understanding. I have learned not to give the devil a foothold because I suffer.
Now, these things have to do with anything which destroys my physical and emotional health and spiritual disorientation. Sure, I no longer desire to smoke or ingest poisons or participate in the dissipation I once sought out but I do do battle with sex, and the nature of that battle is calling on the Lord right at the outset of catching myself desiring a path that from experience leads me to regret and ultimately disorientation.

I would have thought that the desire for sex gets less as one lives more days but that's not my experience. I have learned as a single man that if I feed that tiger it'll bite me....I know that! I know that! I know that! ....as with any habit or practice that dances on deaths floor.

I feel the pain! Maybe what Paul taught is the answer . . . which is the route I may be forced to take myself.

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 NKJV - "But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

 

[DuckieLady]

That must be very difficult. I don't struggle much with the issue of lust, but every once in a while there's someone that pops into my head out of nowhere and I can't deal with that emotionally either so I go and do the dishes, or put myself to work on something, or whatever else will burn it out of my mind.

I have a lot of crochet items now.

 

[quietthinker]

I feel the pain! Maybe what Paul taught is the answer . . . which is the route I may be forced to take myself.

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 NKJV - "But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

I can say this 2TG that the peace that accompanies overcoming has an exceedingly greater value than the short lived pleasure of desire indulged.

 

[2nd Timothy Group]

I can say this 2TG that the peace that accompanies overcoming has an exceedingly greater value than the short-lived pleasure of desire indulged.

Amen! Words from someone that Truly sounds like they know what they're talking about. :)

1 Corinthians 6:13 NKJV - "Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."

 

[quietthinker]

That must be very difficult. I don't struggle much with the issue of lust, but every once in a while there's someone that pops into my head out of nowhere and I can't deal with that emotionally either so I go and do the dishes, or put myself to work on something, or whatever else will burn it out of my mind.

I have a lot of crochet items now.

Can I hear clicking needles? or is my hearing faulty and you've got flamenco in your feet?

 

[DuckieLady]

Can I hear clicking needles? or is my hearing faulty and you've got flamenco in your feet?

LOL I think you're thinking of knitting.

 

[quietthinker]

LOL I think you're thinking of knitting.

ahhh, yes!

 

[marks]

I'd rather listen to a fork in a blender for seven hours than write anything creative.

I'd say this is pretty creative!

Much love!

 

[marks]

Yup, things change and continue to change.... habits and understanding. I have learned not to give the devil a foothold because I suffer.
Now, these things have to do with anything which destroys my physical and emotional health and spiritual orientation. Sure, I no longer desire to smoke or ingest poisons or participate in the dissipation I once sought out but I do do battle with sex, and the nature of that battle is calling on the Lord right at the outset of catching myself desiring a path that from experience leads me to regret and ultimately disorientation.

I would have thought that the desire for sex gets less as one lives more days but that's not my experience. I have learned as a single man that if I feed that tiger it'll bite me....I know that! I know that! I know that! ....as with any habit or practice that dances on deaths floor.

Well said!

 

[Mayflower]

After becoming a true practicing Christian, did you ever feel like there were things that you used to love (music, movies, whatever) that you can no longer stand?

I was going through some old music to get some feelings because I'm all out and I couldn't resonate to any of the old stuff besides a few songs from The Civil Wars and a couple other things. The rest just feels dead.

That's probably a good thing but I'm craving some kind of "passion" or "creativity" that feels pretty stolen away from me probably because I can't play guitar right now. Not like I'm good or anything, but that was like my outlet that couldn't be taken away, because I'd rather die than look at a paintbrush and I'd rather listen to a fork in a blender for seven hours than write anything creative.

You can use the guitar to being worship to God! Go for it girl!

 

[Mayflower]

I took a 30 day Christian music challenge as a new Christian. Only listened to Christian radio and everything for 30 days. I didn't like it at first. But when I went back to evanescence/britney spearce/backstreet boys, I realized I couldn't stand it anymore. So that changed. Then I had to throw away stories I wrote, because they were all dsrk and wanted no part of that. It really is a process.

 

[DuckieLady]

You can use the guitar to being worship to God! Go for it girl!

That's the goal! Acoustic guitar and 10-string lyre. Not very good at the lyre yet, but needed something I could carry around easily without it taking up a bunch of space.

Some Christian bands that I used to love (Red, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, etc) I can't even listen to now because it doesn't feel like worship.. Know what you mean about writing. I kind of feel like I was unintentionally "channeling" something dark when I used to write by sort of meditating/spacing out to music and whatever came to mind. Whatever it was it wasn't good. I didn't realize it at the time, but whatever I was doing was really similar to automatic writing.

Haven't written anything in about four years now, except 1-2 Christian themed poems stuffed and buried in an Evernote account not to be looked at again.

 

[Mayflower]

That's the goal! Acoustic guitar and 10-string lyre. Not very good at the lyre yet, but needed something I could carry around easily without it taking up a bunch of space.

Some Christian bands that I used to love (Red, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, etc) I can't even listen to now because it doesn't feel like worship.. Know what you mean about writing. I kind of feel like I was unintentionally "channeling" something dark when I used to write by sort of meditating/spacing out to music and whatever came to mind. Whatever it was it wasn't good. I didn't realize it at the time, but whatever I was doing was really similar to automatic writing.

Haven't written anything in about four years now, except 1-2 Christian themed poems stuffed and buried in an Evernote account not to be looked at again.

I want to practice piano more