Name That Tune!

As I read the devotion today on the Upperroom.org (you can connect to this from our homepage… just click on the Daily Devotion link on the menu), I immediately connected with the author’s image that a band playing together equates to them having a conversation. When it sounds good, they are listening to and talking with one another. When it sounds bad, it is as if they are having an argument. My thoughts immediately drifted to the tones coming from some churches. Sadly, instead of emanating angelic tones employing others to join them in singing the chorus of Handel’s Messiah, many churches sound much like an orchestrated fight! Squabbling and fussing, struggling for power and prominence; it’s no wonder the Kingdom is not being advanced! The author goes on to quote Psalm 18:21, “What you say can preserve life or destroy it.” Church, those are true words on a personal and even more true a corporate level. There are spirits that have been crushed by churches who do not consider that others are watching, or listening to them. I come across them all the time…"I won’t go to church because of what I saw years ago"…the story is too familiar and distressing. If we will not learn to harmonize here on earth, we may well find that we have not been invited to be a part of God’s heavenly choir.