This Is The Time – Terry MacAlmon

There is a very real danger of loving music for the effect it has on you and so leaning more towards music power rather than the power of the spirit of the song itself especially as expressed in the truth of the words that make it.  I believe in the therapeutic power of music and see it expressing emotions and passions from rage to distress to jubilation to contentment.  Lyrics are not always necessary just the combination of sounds, rhythms and feels that makes a piece of music what it is strikes people in a way that the spoken word fails.

If that is channeled to godly purposes then the focus of the worship – God Himself can emerge from the trappings of whatever form to give us another glimpse of Him that we may not have seen, appreciated or acknowledged at that time.  So the heart and desire for worship is at once both satiated and content and hungry for more.

I remember the first time I heard this song by the end of it I was in tears because everything about it is theocentric.  It reminds me how me-centred the world around me is, but how Jesus liberated us to perpetual praise not confined to space or time where we realise that it is all about God in His majesty, in His holiness, in His awesome power, in His wondrous character, in all His glory declaring to His creation that there is none like Him.  That jars when we want the beam of attention to fall on us, but thankfully He does a wonderful gracious job in reminding us where the beam belongs and the role we play in the larger scale of things.

Unsurprisingly then, I highly recommend this song to anyone who would wish to spend some quality time away from the issues of the day and actually find greater clarity in that by looking for God in the light of who He is through a method like this song.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

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