Malachi 3:1 states, “Behold I will send my
messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek,
shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Have
you ever thought about the fact that God used a man to help prepare the way for
His Son’s coming to dwell with us? Why
would god need john the Baptist to help prepare the people for Christ’s coming?
John
was “the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight” (Luke 3:4). His
message was, “there cometh one mightier than I after me, the lachet of whose
shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed baptize you with water: but he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost” (St Mark 1:7-8). The prophet Malachi stated, “He is like a
refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as
gold and silver, that they may offer an offering in righteousness (Malachi
#:2-4).
If we
as Christian musicians have any hope of offering the lord musical offerings in “righteousness”,
we must have our hearts purified by the cleansing baptism of the Holy
Spirit. Jesus is coming again and we as Christian
musicians are called to help prepare this world to be ready spiritually for His
coming. God has, in his great wisdom, chosen
us to go to a high mountain and tell the good news of Christ’s coming to save
sinful men and women.
It is
the Christmas season any we will have the opportunity of give God a musical
offering in righteousness and at the time minister to some folks that we may
not see again until Easter Sunday morning.
We need to make sure that we are filled with god’s Spirit as we minister
musically during this Christmas season.
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