Do you ever just have a song that's stuck in your head? I do.
Lately
that song seems to be "Do You Want to Build a Snowman", "For the First
Time in Forever", "In Summer" or "Love is an Open Door" all from
Disney's popular movie Frozen. But above all four of those songs is "Let
it Go".
With a strong vocalist, impressive music and
catchy lyrics this song is constantly in my head and being sung loudly
by myself or my family members and friends.
I have
found that a lot of people, Christians as a group (I wish to mention
that I am a Christian), like to pull "Let it Go" out of context and say
that the lyrics, more specifically the lines stating;
No right/no wrong/no rules for me/I am free
encourage people to be proud in their shame and that we don't have rules we have to live by or any moral standard.
By taking this song out of context with the movie, that is slightly true.
However,considering the whole plot-line of the movie this song brings it to one of its higher peaks.
Imagine
after an accident as a young child your parents lock you up and train
you from a young age to be afraid of a skill or talent you have. The
more you fear, the more you hide. The more you hide, the more afraid and
alone you feel. It's just a constant cycle of bad to worse. You're
living by a set of false, man-made rules. You're trapped in your one
"bad quality". And because of it you will never be the real you.
And
then one day through another accident you escape and are free and
though you're alone, you are no longer bound to false standards and
expectations. No right. No wrong.
No rules.
"Let
it Go" is Elsa's victory song. After years of battle, this is what
she's sees as freedom, as the thing she has always yearned for, even
though it's not entirely true.
She was bound by man-made rules.
Which are false.
God's moral standard is what we should be living by. Not man-made lies, deception and fear.
