My WHAT determines my deathstyle???

I have just been given the Some Kind of Monster DVD and it has made me reflect on some things that I believe, or I feel like I'm expected to believe. I find it fascinating that the "biggest rock band ever", also a band that most Christians would hiss at and hold up their crucifix's towards, can have such a profound line in one of their songs. On their latest album St Anger, Metallica's song Frantic says, among other things "my lifestyle, determines my deathstyle" and as a Christian, it is something that I feel challenged by every time I listen to it.

Do we as Christians (I include myself in this, and am saying this more to myself than anyone else) really take this concept seriously? It's very easy to "accept Jesus into our hearts", but the follow through - the lifestyle - well, that's a whole lot harder. Jesus gave up his life for us, and we're expected to do the same thing for him. Will we necessarily die for him? Probably not, well, not in the west - at the moment at least (unless of course Bishop Brian starts leaving burning crosses outside parliment). But dying for Jesus, in a way, (and I say this carefully because I have never had to choose whether or not I want to live or die on account of my faith), is easier than continuing to live for him.

I know that making that choice to live for him every second of every minute of every hour of every day is something that I still struggle to do, and listening to that one line in Frantic is one of the best wake up calls I have had in a while.

I could go on and on about this, and I will, but since I'm at work I should get back to it...