Verse 18 says that they "by their unrighteousness suppress the truth," meaning (at least in part) that they don't want to live by God's law because it would keep them from some practices that they enjoy. Romans 1 also gives us a hint about why even very intelligent and talented people don't accept the truth of God as the guide for their lives. This provides an interesting illustration of what God says will happen when people don't want to accept His will as the greater meaning for our lives: "They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator" (Rom. Because he's not a Christian, however, he doesn't point us to glorifying God and helping others to know Him, but to environmental concerns. Knopfler captures well the insanity and sadness of hedonism and points us to something bigger and greater that we should be caring about.
Speaking of discernment.As with most of my favorite songs by non-Christian artists, there is are both truth and error in this one. The lyrics are down below in case you can't discern all of them while listening to the song. It's from Dire Straits' much underrated final album, On Every Street, and it's a satire about people who spend large amounts of time and money entertaining while they should be concerned about more important things.
On top of that I happen to really like the style of the music and Mark Knopfler's vocals. "At My Parties" is catchy, funny, meaningful, and impressive in its musicianship, all at the same time, which is pretty rare.
#Dire straits album my parties series#
(Are there some songs that never get old for you? You can listen to them over and over again, even after you've just listened to them, and you still enjoy them? When they also make you think about interesting and important stuff, you get the kinds of songs I'm talking about in this series of blog posts.)
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