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Pentecost 12 Spiritual Gifts
Pentecost 12 Spiritual Gifts
“That’s music to my heart” you might say when you are pleased about something. Music has a deep affect on us. It is a non-verbal way of feeling, of sensing, of being motivated and experiencing pleasure. The idea of music itself is the sound it makes, the way it touches your heart and makes you want to hear it again. When music is sung it is the combination of voice, sound and words that grasp that part of us that feels beyond what can be said. That’s why we love to sing worship songs. There is a lot of truth in the saying that when you sing you pray twice. Music lifts the heart from mundane concerns within to the sublime beyond.
Think of what you experience when you go to a symphonic performance. For a period of perhaps one to two hours you see the director beckoning the combined instruments to blend into a specific mood fulfilling the intent of the composer.
But do we ever really think of what elements make up a musical presentation? Just what are we listening to and taking part in? Music has to be selected and arranged, instruments chosen, tuned, practiced, shared and rehearsed under a leader who meticulously coordinates and directs the musicians who willingly submit to him and to one another to play their part.
Liken the Body of Christ to a symphony orchestra. The Lord is the director. The believers are His disciples, the ones given different instruments called the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual gifts. The score is the Word of God and it is the Lord who gathers us together to play His music according to His will. No instrument is greater than any other. They all play interdependently knowing that as each plays it is God’s presence that is experienced. Even soloists know they are totally dependent on the director and the other instruments. All instruments at one time or other will be soloists. During rehearsals different instruments may have questions as to their part and how it all blends. The director through the Word and its intention brings His wisdom to answer them. If some instruments play too loudly or off key He corrects them. Finally, all know when Jesus is allowed to lead, the instruments blend into a unity that can be seen, heard and felt in the heart. This is when the Body touches unbelieving hearts in a lost world.
Take in what Paul says in Romans 12:3-6, “3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. 4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his[a]faith.”
Next---some of the gifts, stay tuned.
“That’s music to my heart” you might say when you are pleased about something. Music has a deep affect on us. It is a non-verbal way of feeling, of sensing, of being motivated and experiencing pleasure. The idea of music itself is the sound it makes, the way it touches your heart and makes you want to hear it again. When music is sung it is the combination of voice, sound and words that grasp that part of us that feels beyond what can be said. That’s why we love to sing worship songs. There is a lot of truth in the saying that when you sing you pray twice. Music lifts the heart from mundane concerns within to the sublime beyond.
Think of what you experience when you go to a symphonic performance. For a period of perhaps one to two hours you see the director beckoning the combined instruments to blend into a specific mood fulfilling the intent of the composer.
But do we ever really think of what elements make up a musical presentation? Just what are we listening to and taking part in? Music has to be selected and arranged, instruments chosen, tuned, practiced, shared and rehearsed under a leader who meticulously coordinates and directs the musicians who willingly submit to him and to one another to play their part.
Liken the Body of Christ to a symphony orchestra. The Lord is the director. The believers are His disciples, the ones given different instruments called the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual gifts. The score is the Word of God and it is the Lord who gathers us together to play His music according to His will. No instrument is greater than any other. They all play interdependently knowing that as each plays it is God’s presence that is experienced. Even soloists know they are totally dependent on the director and the other instruments. All instruments at one time or other will be soloists. During rehearsals different instruments may have questions as to their part and how it all blends. The director through the Word and its intention brings His wisdom to answer them. If some instruments play too loudly or off key He corrects them. Finally, all know when Jesus is allowed to lead, the instruments blend into a unity that can be seen, heard and felt in the heart. This is when the Body touches unbelieving hearts in a lost world.
Take in what Paul says in Romans 12:3-6, “3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. 4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his[a]faith.”
Next---some of the gifts, stay tuned.
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