"If only My people would listen to Me and Israel would follow My ways,
I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes." vs. 13-14
Seems rather self-explanatory to me.
On another note ♪ ♫
I always look for pictures or music videos to add to my posts here. That's for a few of my friends who say they don't really read, they just look at pictures. Haha.
So looking today I ran across a rather - hmmm, how do I describe it - a picture of an ancient wine or water jar made of clay and decorated with erotic pictures. The post that went with it was from a man of another denomination that thinks using instruments in worship is one of the most wicked things you can do. He used the picture to prove his point that music of that time was very ungodly. Bless his heart. He said Psalm 81 cannot be used as a text to prove that instruments should be used in worship, but rather that since they used instruments in worship they were therefore punished by God and needed to repent.
Bless his heart.
I'll write more about instruments in worship when we get to the grand conclusion of the Psalms - Psalm 150. I wonder how that guy explains that chapter away. Nasty pictures of satyrs playing instruments on a Greek urn should not be the basis of the theology of worship. Just sayin'. Bless his heart.
Today is Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday. The sheer beauty of his music written for worship and for God's glory - using organ and all instruments of the orchestra as accompaniment - are a great testimony to instrumental music's ability to enhance a text and to bring praise and worship to God.
1 comment:
Really liked your comments, especially the discussion you gave on musical instruments.... Bless their hearts (as we say in the south).
I liked the thoughts of how God waited to give them what He wanted them to have. How often we think we know what we want (as children and adults). I remember in about 3rd grade my mom trying to help with something and I just knew she was wrong. Amazing how smart she was/is, and how PATIENT she was/is with me. And to realize that God is even more so.
I loved the way the end of verse 12 was translated in different versions:
they walked in their own counsels.
To walk in their own devices.
to follow their own plans.
Run! Do it your own way!
It's good to know that when I have these lapses of judgment, and I just take off, that God is waiting, patiently, for me.
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