A Beautiful Song
I finished a book today that ended with a parallel to music. I love music so it just seemed a perfect way to describe how we should be:
"To us it has been given the greatest song in all the universe to sing.
It isn't important we sing it professionally with great polish.
But it is important we sing it passionately, with great heart.
When we come together as Christians, united by our love for God and for our neighbor, that is when we will be in harmony with the melody of the Father's heart. And that is when our lives will become a song so beautiful it will make the entire world stop and listen.
Maybe they won't understand the words. And maybe after hearing them, they will simply return to what they were doing before. Even so, they will sense that what they heard comes from someplace higher and farther than any of them have dared to dream. And for the briefest of moments, the heart of every last person who hears it will ache to be free.
So until Jesus returns, we sing.
Together.
In harmony.
And when at last He appears, the most passionate notes we have sung here on earth will seem only the humming of a prelude. And we will discover, some of us maybe for the first time, that the sad and sometimes somber notes of our lives here on earth were in fact the deep, visceral strains of a great, heavenly symphony.
And when we see Jesus, the One whom we have loved only from afar, we will burst into song, tears streaming down our faces, never wanting the song to end, each stanza lifting us higher to fuller expressions of love for Him who sounded the first and most beautiful note that gave us all not only a reason to live....
but to sing."
"To us it has been given the greatest song in all the universe to sing.
It isn't important we sing it professionally with great polish.
But it is important we sing it passionately, with great heart.
When we come together as Christians, united by our love for God and for our neighbor, that is when we will be in harmony with the melody of the Father's heart. And that is when our lives will become a song so beautiful it will make the entire world stop and listen.
Maybe they won't understand the words. And maybe after hearing them, they will simply return to what they were doing before. Even so, they will sense that what they heard comes from someplace higher and farther than any of them have dared to dream. And for the briefest of moments, the heart of every last person who hears it will ache to be free.
So until Jesus returns, we sing.
Together.
In harmony.
And when at last He appears, the most passionate notes we have sung here on earth will seem only the humming of a prelude. And we will discover, some of us maybe for the first time, that the sad and sometimes somber notes of our lives here on earth were in fact the deep, visceral strains of a great, heavenly symphony.
And when we see Jesus, the One whom we have loved only from afar, we will burst into song, tears streaming down our faces, never wanting the song to end, each stanza lifting us higher to fuller expressions of love for Him who sounded the first and most beautiful note that gave us all not only a reason to live....
but to sing."
posted by Rochelle @ 3:24 PM
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