The Music of Heaven

Last week I read Beth Moore's Get out of that Pit.
I haven't been in a pit, but it was a good read. There was a chapter near the end entitled "Singing a New Song" that was really exciting to me. It presented the idea that we were all born for song. Our lives are a song. We are surrounded by song. We need song.

And since I don't want to write for permission to copy what she said, I'm just going to tell you what I got from the chapter in my own words.

Job 38:4-7
“ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

Music is eternal. Outer space is filled with the songs of stars we can't comprehend. Heaven rings with the songs of angels. God invented music and set about filling the universe with it.

Psalm 32:7
"You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance."

God wants us to be free, and he surrounds us, in the midst of our battle, with songs of deliverance!
Beth Moore said to think of all the dramatic movies you've seen. She specifically mentions The Return of the King and Remember the Titans. The Lion King being my favorite movie, that's what comes to mind for me. (Ok, Hanz Zimmer is amazing, so I'm not ashamed. lol)

Movies are filled with amazingly haunting scores, triumphant scores, joyful, aching, glorious melodies. If earthly music, played on earthly instruments to accompany a drama written by fallen people has such moving power, just imagine the accompaniment with which God surrounds us! Surely it is composed of melodies we could never imagine, with sounds and structure we could never comprehend!

So... I don't know a good way to wrap this up, but that was an amazing thought to me and I thought it was worth sharing. Not only does He fill our hearts with unutterable songs to Him, and the heavens with songs beyond our comprehension, He surrounds us in the midst of our struggles with "ringing cries" and "shouts of deliverance". (Strong's Concordance)

Wow.

The Unattainables

There's this one person you wish you could get to know. Inevitably blessed with a gorgeous smile and constantly surrounded by people. There they are, in all their glory, just running over with fun personality (that made me think of that line from Shrek - "you're just REEKIN' with feminine beauty!" unrelated, yes). You know, the kind that enables them to be friends with anyone and everyone.

Everyone but you.

Okay, so maybe that's not quite true, but that's beside the point.

You just know if you could hang out with them and really get to know them you'd be great pals. You'd have lots of laughs and inside jokes, and you'd get along really well. But it will never happen for you. Why? Because they already have a horde of best pals, and they're super nice to everyone else on the planet, too. How could they possibly have room for another friend?

"High school buddy moved away - now accepting applications for new friend."

It's not like they ignore you, heaven forbid dislike you. Sometimes they even stop and speak to little ol' you! They flash you that lovely, sincere smile of good will, ask how you're doing, make some astoundingly clever remark, and then they're off again. Off to be friends with the world.

Maybe I'm pathetic. I can think of ten people right now that I've observed in this light.

Some of them, looking back, were probably best left relegated to acquaintance status.

Some of them I was pretty close with, and this opposite thing happened where I watched our friendship slip into oblivion as they grew closer to other awesomer people.

Some of them I currently count among my friends, but still feel like I don't know them well enough.

Some of them I'm sure I never even spoke to. Maybe I said hi once. Maybe.

Probably not.

What do you call that, anyway? Is there a nice, short way to say "aspiring to be close to a person you admire who is so awesome they already have so many friends there's no room for you"?

Maybe I'm just a selfish kid. Maybe my wish to be good friends with these people is some inner self-seeking ....thing. I never considered that before. Hm. But I don't think that's it.

Honestly, I just think they're cool people and wish I could get to know them better. humph.

Maybe I'm the only one that feels that way about some people.

Nah. Can't be.

Are there any Unattainables in your life?

I wonder how they would feel to know they're in that category.
I wonder if maybe some of them do know?