December 24, 2008
Sing-a-Long
Last week our choir sang ‘Lion of Judah’ for special music. I don’t recall ever hearing the song before, but it is beautiful. Apparently the words and melody settled comfortably in my mind because when I woke up at 2:00 am this morning I was singing with the choir and could not get the song out of my mind. I can just imagine how maddening the Christmas season is for Satan. Songs of praise ringing out from every corner of the world may just be stuck in his head. Do you suppose he and his minions are loosing sleep by being reminded of their failure to kill the Holy One of God?
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Gail;
-----Satan probably fumes a bit over the sounds of all the singing. But I imagine he is even more vexed by all the comfort and joy those songs bring to the hearts of the saints singing and hearing them. It is not just a chorus of sounds going up to the Lord and out to one another, but it is even more an orchestra of sentiment. And what I imagine is particularly vexing to Satan about this sentiment is that its core nature is made of mutual concern for each other.
-----Satan’s aspiration was the introduction of self ambition into God’s system of mutual concern. Getting over the message of the lyrics, seeing his defeat in them, I am sure he is very pleased when some in the church insist this song of praise must be sung, but not that song of reverence (or visa versa.) For those sentiments have swung back around to Satan’s philosophy of self as center. Now that Satan knows he failed to kill the Holy One of God, he knows he must take aim at the effect the Holy One can have upon the world, and obscure the mutual center.
-----I think that is why the Holy Spirit was careful to inspire those three words in Ephesians 5:19, “…addressing one another…” (RSV) in the singing of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. And, no, we do not want to overlook “making melody to the Lord with all your heart.” It is just this mutual concern for one another that Satan would die to destroy. And he will use whatever tactic he can to destroy it, even if he must relent and cause some to become so strung out on serving the Lord that they no longer are able to discern what their brethren truly need. For Satan knows well that service to the Lord is disingenuous if service to one another is fallacious. When one brother takes command of a church and force-feeds it sounds not harmonious to all, I can hear Satan quoting that cute line delivered in the show ring of the movie Babe, “That’ll do, pig. That will do.”
Love,
Steve Corey
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