When the Music Fades

The doors are shut, lights turned off, building locked up. The people went home to carry on with their lives. The show is over, the music silenced, the performers gone. The singers have been silenced and there is a hush across the room. The show is over. Although the show has ended and everyone is gone it doesn’t mean the singer doesn’t still continue. She may not be on stage but her love is for the music and she continues to hum a melody even as she prepares for rest. She has a love and undying passion for the performance and it burns within her even after the music fades.

The love for our savior should be our undying passion. Our relationship shouldn’t depend on the thrill and volume of the music and of the services we go to from week to week. I was singing in a youth service when I noticed someone who was normally in the spotlight just sitting with their arms folded. They had forgotten their passion. I never want to be guilty of sitting on my worship because I am not in the spotlight or because the music has faded. The music isn’t what moves me, its my love for God and His unfailing name. I know at times we are prompted by the beat of the drum or the rhythm of the bass. But when that is silenced we will still be able to list our hands? We will still leap for joy or dance before our savior? I am reminded of the song Heart or Worship. When the music fades and all has slipped away, and I simply come. Longing just to bring something that’s of worth that will bless your heart. I’ll bring you more than song….My life revolves around music and I am more guilty than some I am sure of wrapping my life up in it, but when the presence of Jehovah comes in no song can compare. I guess what I am trying to say is will my praise and worship still be strong long after the music fades?

Just Another Employee

I was sitting at work the other day and a thought came to my mind…

I have a boss who I sit right beside and we get along pretty good. I also have another boss who is above her that I know and say hey to every now and then, but the relationship isn’t so close. Then there is the CEO of the company who doesn’t even know my name. I was thinking about how sometimes our relationship with God is kind of like my relationship with the CEO. I do all this work him and help his company run, but he has no idea who I am. I am sure he is thankful I am around, but that doesn’t sway from the fact he doesn’t know me. So many of us go through life doing things for God and we don’t have a relationship with Him. We’re just another employee. I am sometimes guilty of doing things for God like in church and outside of church that I forget to establish my relationship with Him. Do I know Him? Does He know me? Is my relationship solid enough with Him that when I stand before the throne He will know who I am? U don’t want go through my life being God’s employee and never His friend. I want to be more than just another employee.

Nothing, but the blood

What can wash away my sins?
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

My friend and music leader at church sang this simple chorus Sunday morning and the words pricked my heart. I started to think about all the things that people try in the world today. All the things they try to make them either forget about what they’ve done or make them feel better for the time being. I thought about how there are millions of people in the world who feel completely worthless because of the things they have either said or did. There are so many people who are either trying to run from their past or erase it. I remember the times I felt that way, and all I needed was one drop of blood. One drop of blood from Jesus saved my soul, erased my past, and made me whole. I didn’t have to spend endless hours searching for another fix that would only be temporary. All I had to do was seek the face of Jesus and His matchless blood saved me in an instant. I am glad that I know the answer to the questions that I once had. What can wash away my sin? The blood of Jesus! What can make me whole again? The blood of Jesus!! What is the reason I am here today? The blood of Jesus! I thank God for the blood he shed for me.