I couldn't be more challenged and passionate about this series on worldliness we have undertaken on Wednesday nights at 10:31. A great quote in the book we've been using as a resource as we look at the Scriptures reminds us of the place that music should have in our lives. "Ultimately, music is a means of deepening our love for and enjoyment of the One who gave us this gift in the first place. In The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis expressed it like this:
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them.....For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a county we have never yet visited.
No music, however beautiful, however impressive, however technologically creative or emotionally moving, can rival the wonder and breathtaking beauty of the Savior, who came as a man to live a perfect life and die an atoning death in our place" (Worliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World, C.J. Mahaney, p 88-89).
Music is a gift from God...that should move us to think great thoughts of God, leading us to live for the glory of Christ, and live worthy of the Gospel.
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