Wednesday, October 30, 2024

day no. 16,809: salvation is a soundtrack

"There is a season for all the things that men do (Ecc. 3:1-8), and there is appropriate music for all of it." — New Saints Andrews College, Thirty Theses on Culture Building

God has given us several soundtracks to back the various good works He has prepared for us ahead of time to do. There is a time to war and music to match that occasion. There is a day for dancing and music to mark out your steps. There is a morning for mourning and music in keeping with weeping. To all of the good works God has given us to do, He has provided the sounds that best match the mood. There is a time to waltz and a time to march, a time to shout and a time to selah, a time to raise your hands and a time to bow your head, a time to lift your eyes and a time to close them, a time to crash the cymbal and a time to hold the note. Salvation is a soundtrack. The Psalms are the score.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The Psalms are the soundtrack of a full, Christian story. They provide the music for late nights, early mornings, heavy hearts, anxious thoughts, feasting, dancing, wedding, fighting, calming one down, or riling one up. The Psalms sing the score for whatever the day may hold and those who acquaint themselves with them will have theme music for whatever good work God puts before them at any given moment.

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