Turn Up the Radio

Music is truly one of God’s gifts to mankind. It has been such a big part of my life for the better part of it, that I don’t know what I would do without it.

All of us know the joy of driving down the highway, windows open on a cool day, when that favorite song of ours just comes on the radio out of the blue. Of course, the radio gets turned up just a bit, our spirits lift even more, and if we don’t pay attention, usually our car ends up going just a wee bit faster with the advent of that favorite tune! Last, but certainly not least, we lift our voices to the heavens and sing loud enough to make dogs howl.

I was struck by this just this morning, driving to work on an otherwise quite normal Monday morning. I was a bit tired (happens to you on a Monday morning you know?), and wasn’t paying too much attention to anything in particular, when all of a sudden this great song came on over the airwaves. Immediately, my spirits were lifted, and yep, I sang loud enough to make the dogs howl.

Music can do this for us. It can lift our spirits; it can move us to unimaginable heights, and yes, unimaginable depths at times. But, at all times, it has an impact, and at the very least lets us know we’re alive. It is one human being sharing his thoughts and beliefs to another in words and song, and it never fails to at least make us think, even if it’s a silly little ditty.

How boring the world would be without music, I say. Can you imagine just listening to others talk in spoken language all the time, without tunes to accompany the words? After a while, that would get awful routine. Music gives color to what we say, to what we express. It is the tapestry upon which many of the great truths in life are expressed.

It’s a gift to us from God, honestly. And, many times I’ve personally felt that He has communicated to me through a song, at exactly the right time I’ve needed to hear it (I’ve written on this in another part of the “Ministry of the Mundane”). What a wonderful thing He invented. Well, we humans technically invented music, but you won’t convince me that it wasn’t divinely inspired!

Turn up your radios my friends. It’s a wonderful thing to have music in our lives, and a wonderful day and age where we have so many ways to experience it (through radio, computer downloads, CD’s, etc.). And, as always, when you hear that message that seems like its directly targeted to you, don’t discount it as just a coincidence. Somebody’s probably trying to get your attention!

-The Minister