Young, Wild, Free?—No, You Are Sad, Sick, Stupid
Lana Del Rey's music, a Satanic cult I used to worship, is divinely misleading, aesthetically evil, with an aware indulgence in sinning. Young men, come in and let me wake you up.
“In repentance and rest you will be saved.
In quietness and trust is your strength.
But you were not willing.”
Isaiah 30:15
Lord, help us. Help our young men, who aspire to be assholes and bad female dogs.
They have an attitude that are epitomized in Lana Del Rey’s music.
They are often ambitious.
They are mostly self-consuming.
They readily take pride in pursuing “freedom.”
This supreme word, freedom, has been treacherously associated with “free from responsibilities.”
After all, Lana Del Rey said: “live fast, die young, be wild, and have fun.”
Too vague?
Let me dissect it for you—
rush, drink, consume, squander, wander,
get messed-up, get heartbroken, get away with it,
be “open-minded,” be an addictive addict, be obsessed with lies and liars,
be the wind, chase the wind,
follow your heart, cuddle with depression,
stay confused, stay double-minded,
blame others, worship yourself,
be careless, be reckless, be rootless, be fruitless—
In a word, life is too short to get right with God.
I crawled my way out of that Satanic cult after worshipping it for 6 years. And during those years, I even believed I’d found God—as she believes she did.
Six, years. Damn Satan was good.
Fear not.
Whoever that is of God, will return to God each according to His time. And to those who are His, the Lord says to you,
Sin no more, hold no grudges, fear nothing—that is the true freedom in Christ.
In this article:
🤷🏻♀️Young, Wild, Free?—Sad, Sick, Stupid
🪤I was misled by those I admired
👅“Life is short”
👀Can I repent when I’m old?
🪵Stop touring, build something
First, the fear of missing out found you then lies about life is short whisper So you run fast in shackles, all the way to hell.
Young, Wild, Free?—Sad, Sick, Stupid
You think life is all about image and postability.
You think going to yacht parties and five-star resorts will be it.
You think meddling around rich people makes you one of them.
You think drinking, smoking, fornicating, wiggling in demonic music make you look really cool, really wild, really hot.
Show me your bank accounts.
Show me your properties.
Call someone to borrow five thousand dollars.
Call someone to come take care of you in hospital.
Call someone to offer you a couch to sleep on until you find a job.
Call someone—just go to your contacts and call someone.
See who you can think of calling—let alone showing up for you.
Certainly not those who sinned with you the other night.
Certainly not those whom you broke trust with.
Certainly not those whom you fooled with a good first impression.
So you have nothing: no money, no people.
And you call that, freedom, wildness, having fun.
Are you happy?
Is there pain in your drunkenness? Is there disgust in your fornication? Is there shame in your fruitlessness? Is there desperation in your clubbing? Is there anxiety gnawing your pleasure?
Is there a hole with crooked edges in your heart, aching, bleeding, with the wind blowing in and out and for a moment, you almost couldn’t breathe?
You experience a mental breakdown every other day.
You wriggle in a club like meat on a cutting board—dead, but twitching.
You rant and blame.
You break and flee.
But you can’t stop, can you? You have to maintain an image of “young, wild, free.”
So you try to rub your misery off with sin, which leads to more misery, and now you’re in a cycle:
Misery—sin—misery—sin—misery—
Even in your happy moments, there’s darkness in it to hold the shadow of misery.
The Lord says to you,
“In repentance and rest you will be saved. In quietness and trust is your strength. But you were not willing.” Isaiah 30:15
Do you know why you’re miserable?
You’re fruitless being reckless. Your fruitlessness breeds boredom. Your boredom pulls the trigger of sins. You sins trap you in a never-ending cycle of misery.
Have you NOT had enough of this?
Do you really believe this is “all that life has to offer?”
I was misled by those I admired
“For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:6-7
🍸A gullible woman led away by various lusts
I was the gullible woman in 2 Timothy Chapter 3.
I was the “clouds without water, carried along by winds” in Jude 12-13
I was the “wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam.”
I was the “wandering stars.”
I was stupid.
Because Lana Del Rey’s music was sick to the bone, because all the great writers I admired were sad, I took pride in sadness and held onto sickness. After all, they said, “Unhappy Socrates and happy pigs.”
Jesus asked the paralyzed man by the pool, “Do you want to be healed?”
My answer would have been just like that man’s—“well, you know, I need to be sick to write shits and I need someone to publish my books first and so…yeah, I guess. I mean…I don’t know.”
🔮Why artists are so misleading
Lana Del Rey’s music is heavily inspired by Christianity yet she twists the Word of God so it becomes intoxicatingly beautiful—
She muddies herself in the corruption of the world, meanwhile being sick of its delusions and ephemerality.
Same as F. Scott Fitzgerald, same as Oscar Wilde.
Same as many great artists I used to admire.
That exquisite sickness and the contradictory pursuit—wallowing in the world yet desiring for eternity—made them iconic.
These are the foolish quotes from those iconic artists who are NOT with God now:
“I’m free that’s why I’m lost.” — Franz Kafka (Oh no, you were lost and enslaved.)
“The more you love, the more you suffer.” —Vincent van Gogh (NO, the more you love, the less you suffer.)
"I found it!—What? Eternity. It's the sun mingled with the sea." —Arthur Rimbaud (Sunrise or sunset—which creation you were worshipping, Arthur?)
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." —Ernest Hemingway (So none of the intelligent people you knew were right with God.)
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. I can resist everything except temptation." —Oscar Wilde (.)
🩸The covenant with Satan
They lived in misery and confusion their whole lives and never got tired of it—
You think they don’t want to have peace, joy, love, and fulfillment?
Of course they do!
But they knew exactly where their genius came from—misery and ephemerality.
That's the covenant they made with Satan, who took their God-given dominion and sonship on earth by giving them a little fame, a little name, a little idea.
That's the covenant the Little Mermaid made with the sea witch for the price of human legs. She forfeited her soul and died as foam.
God cursed them—"Jacob I loved, Esau I hated." Why? Esau gave up his birthright for a bowl of soup.
Don’t idolize anyone, any lifestyle, any values—no one and nothing deserves your worship but God alone.
🪹Misery is a lack of wisdom and a lack of love
If you notice, all those writers and artists were glorifying misery—Oh, misery is proof that you’re intelligent and loving.
What absolute BS.
The truth is:
Misery is a lack of wisdom. Wisdom has high frequency, this is why God does not freak out when we do. When we see beyond the circumstance, nothing below us bothers.
Misery is a lack of love, not a lack of being loved. A person who loves cannot possibly be miserable.
The world despises desperation and dependency, but the problem is not desperation and dependency, and the solution is not to be wild and have fun.
The only cure for desperation and dependency is to be desperate for and dependent on God.
Yes, the truth is always simple and counterintuitive.
“Life is short,” so sin as much as you can
"This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life." John 2:25
🧛🏻Evil is a “warped system of aesthetics”
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Now, here's a relevant story from The Great Gatsby.
Myrtle, an adulterer who is Tom Buchanan's mistress, keeps speaking to herself after her derailing encounter with Tom on a train—
“You can't live forever. You can't live forever.”
How many sins are instigated by this one ultimate lie, "life is short?"
Life is short because of sins.
Yet people sin for the sake that life is short.
Go figure.
What is the definition of evil?
— "a warped system of aesthetics,” said Jordan Peterson.
It's warped, it's systematic, it's aesthetic.
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Can I repent when I’m old?
What will happen to young men who try to take “all that life has to offer” and plan to repent in old age?
🍂You might not be able to repent when you are old
There were people who conveyed this far better than me:
“Beware of the attitude that says, ‘I know I’m on the wrong road but I’m not tired of it yet, I’ll repent and come back to God somewhere down the line.’ You may not be able to repent because the further you are down the road away from God, the harder your heart gets, and the less you think you’ve done anything wrong, and the less you think you need to repent.” —Billy Graham
“There’s nothing in humans that can lead to repentance. It’s always the act of the Spirit that turns a man to repent his sins. The reason you repented is because God turned you. If He didn’t, you would never have repented.” —Derek Prince
So what were these two great evangelists talking about?
Repentance is initiated by the Spirit of God. You don’t get to decide your repentance or your salvation or your calling. He chose you. He chose the time to preach the gospel to you. He chose the time to turn you to repentance, to reveal to you your calling, and to make you surrender your life to Him.
And He wants you NOW.
When God turns you to repent, that’s the chance you have. That could be your only chance.
Derek Prince described his own supernatural conversion—
I said “yes” becasue I knew that if I didn’t, God would never speak to me again. Thank God for His mercy that I said “yes.” —Derek Prince
🪫You’ll miss out on God’s best
If you’re called at 20, don’t delay obedience until you are 60. You would already have lost your destiny. You could have had an abundant life, blessed with a godly spouse, godly children, godly grandchildren, properties, ministries, relationships, love, peace, joy, blessing after blessing—
“It is the blessing of the Lord that makes riches, and He adds no sorrows to it.” Proverbs 10:22
Go ask around those who delayed obedience and disregarded His commandments for decades.
When you do not sow in spring, you shall not reap in fall.
A season of disobedience will always reap its consequences.
God will always forgive those who repent and embrace them with love in Heaven.
But that youthful season of your life on earth has missed out on God's top plan forever.
Don’t think that “all that life—or, sin—has to offer” is really all that life has to offer—
when it’s NOT an offer from the Lord.
The commandment-breakers are missing out because commandments are not confinement—sin is the real confinement to your potentials.
Go read the part after David committed adultery and murder. Yes, God forgave him. Yes, through his line, Jesus was born. Yes, he’s a man “after God’s own heart.”
But look at the consequences he suffered from his sins.
The blood of Jesus removes death, not the living consequences.
Take root and build something
"His Commandments do not keep us from pleasure—but keep us from temporary pleasure that kills lasting delights, from immediate gratification that kills long-term success." —Bill Johnson
🍇Be fruitful and multiply
—you can’t do this being rootless. You must take root, blossom, bear fruits, and build something—a business, a community, a family, a legacy—whatever it is.
It’s easy to experience, it’s hard to build.
It’s easy to charm, it’s hard to love.
It’s easy to impress, it’s hard to be respected.
It’s easy to start, it’s hard to finish.
It’s easy to sprint, it’s hard to grow.
It’s easy to believe Jesus is the Son of God, it’s hard to be a son of God.
👨🏼🌾The mindset of the Lord is a farmer’s mindset
Rely on the grace of God, live by the work of your hands, know the seasons to sow and the seasons to reap, discern the tares from the wheat, pull out the weeds and kill the pests, prepare your field and build your house, feed your people and your herds, grow your crops and your finances, sell, trade, give—fear the Lord, for He gives both harvest and famine.
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I would pick Mendelssohn, Milton, Herbert, Donne, GM Hopkins, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, the Psalmists,Isaiah, Habakkuk, the rest of the prophets and Solomon against the so-called artists and find more wisdom, more texture, more insight into the human heart, more color, more vibrancy, more life than in any of these so-called genius artists of the past two centuries.
You're right. Isaiah 28 and Amos 9 form some of the most beautiful poetry I have ever seen--poetry focused on cultivation, seeing life as a farmer sees his soil: "good earth," to be tended and cared for rather than pressed, squeezed, and trampled.
Young, wild, and free is like setting a mad Bull loose among tender green shoots. Life comes by letting the "Heavenly Muse" brood over our lives like a loving mother hen, not by drowning Her in an intoxicating flood of dissipation.