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TITLE: Orcestral Movement #7 in Cm | Previous Challenge Entry
By Lance Wilson, Sr.
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The writers of the “Sound of Music” touched on the majesty of God’s opus when they penned the words, “The hills are alive with the sound of music/with songs they have sung for a thousand years.” It continues to be this wondrous music that sustains the very fabric of life today.
Everywhere we look, we see the effects of Gods musical qualities.
The ‘lub-dub’ of the human heart moves with a syncopation that keeps the blood flowing throughout the body. It is this rhythm that medical personal check for whenever we go for a physical. The movement of our blood through the arteries indicates the pressure which the blood exerts against the walls of these thin tubes that course like an interstate highway within our bodies. Only a conductor of Gods magnitude could construct such a symphony from the ‘dust of the ground.’
We stand on the threshold of a world that bursts at the seams with music. Yet so often within the circles of discontent we hear the vicious counterpoint of sin. Still from the beginning it was not so.
The sweet twitters of the first sparrows, the bombastic trumpeting of the first elephant and the clapping of the first trees that swayed in the wind, all sang praises to the beauty that was the world of Genesis. The joyous laughter of Eve as she and Adam exchanged intimate moments with God in the cool of the evening, is unparalleled in this world.
His voice must’ve been lyrical and soothing in their ears giving them peace beyond our understanding. These moments are, even now, difficult to describe because there is nothing to compare them with.
Then the deceiver slithers in and tempts the innocent and soon there is a different melody that rings out through the garden . . . the downbeat of life.
Sweat and toil marked the time and displacement from the garden was the penalty for this disobedience. It was a penalty that would be felt for generations to come, turning the opus into an improvisation, full of dissonant chords and uneven harmonies.
Then God adds another stanza, and Genesis 3:15 becomes a part of the melody. It is a chorus that is repeated throughout the Old Testament, the promise of the redeemer, the one to bring salvation to his people, truth to light the darkness, the victor over death.
That chorus sings out Jesus!
Stop for a moment and breathe his name, I’ll wait. . . .
Sends a chill through body doesn’t it?
The announcement of his birth is heralded by a choir, a choir greater than any here on earth, to Shepards in a field. Mary, his mother, composes her own melody when she visits her cousin who is also pregnant. The unborn child in her cousin dances to the unheard music of the Messiah in Mary, while God moves his hands gracefully to the rhythm of her lilting voice.
As his ministry grew the tone, which he used to proclaim the truths of his Father, becomes sweet as the sounds of the first sparrows to those who accepted the truth and embraced it. And resembles the sound of shattering glass to those living self righteously, embracing pride and greed. Unfortunately these were also the ones that claimed to be voices of God on earth!
In the heat of the Middle Eastern morning he was beaten and murdered but before the funeral dirge could reach its climax he stood before his friends as a living, breathing, testament to the power of God over sin and death.
Imagine the melody that played in their hearts as he touched them, ate with them, laughed with them. Joy unspeakable and full of glory!
Two thousand years have sped by and the piece is still fresh today as it was when God first wrote it. It is not a ‘golden oldie’, nor is it a ‘one-hit wonder’ but it is a song that can heal, that can deliver, that can set free from bondage anyone that has the desire to listen to it.
There is one part of movement that remains yet to be played.
It starts with a trumpet call. “And the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up . . .” (2Thessaloians 4:16-17)
Play on Lord. Play on.
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There's a lot going on here, however, and that creates a bit of an unsettled feeling by provoking an image then moving quickly to another one.
I like your writing so much I would have enjoyed dwelling a bit longer with each thought.