But evenmore, I love how music prepares my heart and causes me to reflect on my own humanness and God's greatness. It is during this time that the holy spirit speaks to my heart. I don't really hear an audible voice. It is just a silent, but strong message within my soul. A feeling that is so impressed upon me, a conviction within my innermost being.
The song "Mighty to Save" caused me to reflect in such a way. The very first words that we sang pierced my soul like an arrow straight to the bullseye. The message hit it dead on.
"Everyone needs compassion... Everyone needs forgiveness"
Have I forgotten that? Have I remembered to show compassion? Have I kept my lips from spreading slander? Have my actions been out of love instead of the diseased empathy that slowly deadens? I thought about my job. So many women. So many things to talk about. So many people who love to be loved and who hurt when they are hated. So many chances to make the choice: compassion or mercilessness, forgiveness or bitterness.
In a matter of a moment I remembered the scripture about a woman, an adulteress, who was to be stoned to death. How she was receiving scorn and neglect. I remembered how Jesus, in his gentle way, silently bent down and drew in the sand. One by one the stones dropped from the hands of the hateful. And the fear in the woman melted away as he said, "Go and sin no more." I don't know what He wrote. No one does. The Bible didn't tell us. But the message is clear enough. Everyone needs compassion. Everyone needs forgiveness. Even those who have not deserved it.
We are all sinners. No one is without error. Everyone...
Back to my job. Should I pick up a stone to toss at someone who has made a mistake? Should I spread the slander that engulfs and destroys? Or should I follow the example of Jesus who was gentle. He forgave. He encouraged. He loved.
Wow. Who knew that a simple song could cause such reflection?
John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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1 comments:
Em-
I absolutely LOVE that song it is one of my favorites. I loved what you wrote in regards to it. Even when a song becomes your favorite and you love to sing it all the time often you forget the true meaning of the words. Thank you for the gentle and great reminder of the compassion and love we all need to show as Christians. GReat blog! Things here are going well. We are moving to Milwaukee, WI because Larry got a new position with the company Cargill. It is a meat plant that he will be at so everytime you eat a Burger King Whopper Jr or hamburger from basically any food chain he will have had a hand in it being made! He is going to be a Supervisor at the plant. We are pretty excited to be movign to a bigger city wiht much more to do and we will be very close to Chicago. So we are just prepparing for that move the company has movers coming for us so that takes a huge load off but still there is all the preparation and stuff to do. And we find out tomorrow if its a boy or girl in the oven. So big things little time but a huge God that has all things under control! I hope all is well with you guys. Hope MH has a wonderful Bday! Love ya Chrissy
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