The song Don’t Waste Your Life by Lecrae focus’ on a few things. First of all it focus’ on Christians working hard for the glory of God and in turn “not wasting their lives”. It also focus’ a lot to the point that if none of this is real, what we believe, then our lives have been wasted any way, and that he has found so much joy and peace in Christ that there is no way that it couldn’t be real.
In the first verse of the song Lecrae brings up Luke 12:15-21 which states “Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.” Lecrae uses this piece scripture to back up his point about Christians not wasting their lives because at any moment our lives could end and if we have not lived our lives fully for God then we run the risk of being condemned.
About halfway through the first verse Lecrae says “ Paul said, if Christ aint resurrected, we wasted our lives.” Lecrae uses this as a reference back to the Bible to state the importance of the existence of Christ in the lives of all Christians. This comes from 1 Corinthians 15:17 in which the apostle Paul was writing a letter to the church of Corinth “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” This is simply stating that if Jesus really hadn’t been raised then everything that we believed in and lived by wasn’t true and that we could not be forgiven of our sins which would cause our eternal damnation.
In the next verse Lecrae changes points in saying that living for Christ was the greatest choice that he had ever made and that Christ had filled any voids or holes in his life and further that the joy and happiness he had from knowing Christ was enough for him to fully believe in the existence.
Throughout the rest of the song Lecrae talks about his willingness to do what ever is needed from him for the lord. He talks about persecution and tribulation and is generally stating that he believes in this faith enough, and believes in the word that he is ready for everything that is and will be thrown at him.
Every Christian has their time of questioning and wondering on whether or not we are wasting our lives. Lecrae does a good job in relating with that problem through this song and furthermore encouraging this crowd to push through and find the truth for themselves while still giving scripture to lead them in the right direction.
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