Sometimes,
you get good reminders in the strangest places.
This past Friday
night, Sara and
I attended the Estevan Arts Council’s Stars for Saskatchewan
concert featuring
Canadian singer, song writer Luke McMaster.
Though McMaster was
raised in
Brandon, Manitoba, he loves the sound of Motown and his latest
project has him
visiting, interviewing and recording with singers and song writers
from that
era. As part of his show,
he shared a
video clip of his interview with Lamont Dozier who worked the “The
Four Tops”
and “The Supremes” among others. If
you
have ever listened to this type of music, chances are you have
heard a song
written by him.
At one point,
McMaster asked Dozier,
“How is it that you are still writing music?
You are seventy-seven years old and have been writing for
sixty
years. How do you keep
coming up with
new ideas?”
I loved his answer!
This is not an exact
quote, but
the idea was something like, “Luke, music is all around me. I hear it in the beat of the
windshield
wipers on my car. There is
music in the
wind blowing through the trees. I
hear
it in people’s laughter. I
am not really
creating music. I am just
listening and
writing it down”.
That made me think
about Colossians
2:6-7 which says, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as
Lord, continue
to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the
faith as you
were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness”.
Do you see the
parallel?
Just as Lamont
Dozier said that
he is surrounded by music, Paul says that we are to be surrounded
by God and
his presence. The gift of
Christ is not
a temporary or one-time event. Rather,
we
are to be rooted and built up in our faith.
Then, when that good news surrounds us all the time, we
overflow with
thankfulness! Even when
trouble comes, which
it will, “We do not lose heart… For our light and momentary
troubles are
achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2
Corinthians
4:16-17).
Paul was living in,
looking for
and listening to Christ and, because of that, his life overflowed
with
thanksgiving, joy and hope.
Life has troubles
and, if you
focus on them, they will drag you down.
However, life is
also full of
blessings for which we can be grateful.
Beyond all of this, we have an eternal hope and home
waiting for us.
Can you hear God’s
joyful music?
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