Monday, April 21, 2014

Praise God With All Kinds Of Music


Psalm 150:1-6 -  Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.  Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.  Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,  praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,  praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.  Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD

 

One more anonymous writer….tells us one more time to praise God.  He tells us to praise him in the sanctuary…voices lifted up to penetrate the vast heavens. He tells us to praise him for his power… mighty works…and unequaled greatness.  He tells us to praise him with…our voices and every instrument we can use to make music.

 

The need to stop and praise God…with all our soul and mind….is evidence that we love the Lord with all our being.  What better proof can we show to the world…than our voices….and every instrument available joining together to worship and tell God how very thankful we are for all he has done.

 

He is talking about the integral part that music plays in preparing our hearts and minds to worship. It helps to focus our busy minds on God….the music soothing the worries that we brought into the sanctuary….the words bringing comfort and healing to any pain we have not turned completely over to God and left with him.

 

God created us in a way that we grow and change our tastes of music over the years.  Teenagers bounce and dance to louder music than I care for …some of us more aged individuals clinging to the hymns of old and the routines of the church they grew up with.  There is a place for both. I enjoy a mixture of music….turning off only the most harsh tunes that seem to loud for my old ears…or the ones that I just don’t comprehend the words.

 

God says let every creature praise the Lord…so if that means I need to be flexible and let the teenagers he has placed in my life sing praise a little louder …with a drum and electric guitar…I can try to listen and join in for a time. Perhaps my patience will give them a need to try and develop a new appreciation for the older music of yesteryear that I love so much.

 

Father…thank you for the reminder that all music is loved by you.  You created instrument’s to play music…and gave some of the people you created beautiful voices to sing praise to you. Forgive me for the times that I have not tried to be flexible and listen to the melodies that others use to praise you.  Help me to be more tolerant of different kinds of music…and model for others how to love everything you have allowed men to create. Amen.

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