Melodic Mondays
Those of you who know me know that I love music even though I am not musical myself. I listen to good music as often as I can. It is beneficial to the brain, valuable to the vocabulary, and strengthening to the soul. Isaiah 12:2-3 is a lovely passage that includes this soaring statement of surety: “The Lord JEHOVAH [YAHWEH] is my strength and my song.” This could be translated, “God is my mountaintop and my music.” Yes, He is! Each Monday, I want to study this subject and suggest a song to listen to. Anyone reading this devotional has easy access to any song. (I am an exception because I do not go on a computer or other information device.) If you do not like my suggestion (and we all have different tastes), you can think of or search for one that speaks to you. Then, it can become a source of encouragement throughout the week.
Reasonable people want peace – world, national, individual. Peace with God is even more crucial, for His peace is His current and eternal best to us. In His last discourse to His disciples before His sacrificial atonement on the Cross, Jesus promised, “Peace I leave unto you, May peace I give unto you” (John 14:27a). He added in John 16:33a, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace.” The old hymn “Wonderful Peace” speaks of the personal appropriation of this abiding peace. When one of my cousins died, my grieving aunt told me that this song comforted her throughout that first lonely night of mourning. We will listen to a rendition by the Vagle Brothers.