The song, in the easiest sense, is about Idolatry. Putting other things, even good things, ahead of God in your life make them idols. You can even put biblical principles idols. However, the idol addressed here is the number one in all of society- sex. Everywhere we look it is used to draw people in.
Sexual immorality, which God is telling him to let go of, is very detrimental. It is different from other sins it that it is a sin against your own body(1 Corinthians 6:12-20).
As in Jeremiah 2, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." (verse 13)
Cisterns, for the Israelistes were used for ceremonial washing of sins. Only God can take away their sins, and he is the source of all life (sin is death)- so by forsaking God and worshipping other things, and themselves, they became empty sources of life.
All worldly addictions will have ever intensifying lust for them. They will all have ever decreasing fulfillment. But our passion for God continues to increase and always fills us- not just to the top, but overflowing onto all others.
If God is telling you to let go of something, you let go. Jesus came to give life "and give it to the full". Theses sins are killing you and depriving you of His life- the source of all life.
The song, in the easiest sense, is about Idolatry. Putting other things, even good things, ahead of God in your life make them idols. You can even put biblical principles idols. However, the idol addressed here is the number one in all of society- sex. Everywhere we look it is used to draw people in. Sexual immorality, which God is telling him to let go of, is very detrimental. It is different from other sins it that it is a sin against your own body(1 Corinthians 6:12-20). As in Jeremiah 2, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." (verse 13) Cisterns, for the Israelistes were used for ceremonial washing of sins. Only God can take away their sins, and he is the source of all life (sin is death)- so by forsaking God and worshipping other things, and themselves, they became empty sources of life. All worldly addictions will have ever intensifying lust for them. They will all have ever decreasing fulfillment. But our passion for God continues to increase and always fills us- not just to the top, but overflowing onto all others.
If God is telling you to let go of something, you let go. Jesus came to give life "and give it to the full". Theses sins are killing you and depriving you of His life- the source of all life.