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 latchet 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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