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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