Tuesday, December 10, 2013

The Whir of the Christmas Season

The Whir of the Christmas Season
Isaiah 40:4, “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain:”
       Chief musician you are now in the heart of the Christmas season.  Candle-light services, advent services, Christmas anthems, hymns and choruses.  People are dressing up in bright colors.  You and your staff are decorating the sanctuary for musical events.
       All this activity is wonderful!  There is such an awesome beauty and grandeur that surrounds the Christmas season.  I know, because I was responsible for 33 major musical productions with drama, chorus, full orchestras, narrators and stage sets and special lighting. 
       I can imagine that the adrenalin is pumping through your body as the pressure gets greater and greater as your mind goes many directions at the same time.  Fear and anxiety are, at some moments, all too common and familiar concomitants of producing these musical productions.   Everyone is telling you to slow down and relax.  There are two reasons they make such statements.  One reason is that they love you and the second is that they have, most likely, never been under the unbelievable pressure that you are experiencing at this time!
       However, could you take a moment or two to remember that Christ’s coming to earth was to prepare a way that we might be able to come to Him and know him as our personal savior?  He filled up all the deep ditches and he smoothed out every impassible mountain.  He also made the road to the cross very straight so that we could all come to Him.  He leveled out all the deep ruts in the road so that sinful, confused, miserable, bitter, lost people like you and me could come and kneel at His feet and find forgiveness for all our sins.
       In all your busyness and hurry do not ever forget the real reason we sing and play Christmas music.  Make sure that your Christmas productions tell the old, old story of Jesus and His coming to this earth to forgive all our sins and to justify us freely by His own blood.  Be sure that you’re Christmas productions are worship services that preach Christ’s birth, life, suffering, death and resurrection.  If your productions are really Christmas productions that preach Christ, then I believe that they are worth every minute that it takes to make them the best musical offering that you can give to God.

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