What if Jesus was your favorite vocalist!
Do you realize that Jesus sang and still does sing? Have you ever wondered what He would sound like? How about if He was your favorite vocalist and you were His greatest fan? Hmm what if you were His tour or band manager or His publicist? Wow Jesus sings? Yep He does!
Zephaniah 3:17 says On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Jesus sings songs of deliverance and joy over you and delights in you. It is a personal love song He sings and you get to tell the whole world about and follow Him everywhere He goes. Thats better than any music event or seeing the best artist perform and probably best yet Jesus sings for free and its free to everyone who wants to hear Him. With songs of praise focused lyrically on the truth of the gospel we become the mighty promotor of this love filled message.
During the Last Supper with His disciples He washed their feet and said I have given you an example. You should do as I have done for you. - John 13:14-15 Let's take His example and serve others in song. He sings so let us sing also. The world writes songs but have you ever looked up the lyrics and read all the way through. I did this to a recent song and I couldn't believe how simple mind boggling it was. It was about opening a door and the writer was asking people to open it and let people in. That's it. I said wow if I saw just the lyrics I might not like that song. To me it was about nothing worth hearing for 3-4 minutes. Then I realized how long I was singing along in my head and thought they were singing something completely different.
The best Bible study I ever heard on worship was when the pastor taught that music is an "on-ramp" to worship, that is, all music is putting you on a path to worship something. The word worship just means to ascribe worth to. Songs can be about a car, a girl, a guy, an icon, a drug, an experience, freedom, self, sex, attitude, the beat, the bass, a shoe, a door, or my dead dog fido. The possiblitlies are endless. It just has to have a good beat or a good producer. That's it. But as Christians we get to use lyrics to promote the best vocalist ever...Jesus! Either songs are about stuff in this world that will pass away or they are about....Jesus who will remain forever! What matters most? The next time that catchy song comes on...check out those lyrics and then decide if that artist is truly "worthy" of being a favorite vocalist and of you being their promoter. You might be surprised just what you find. Take the Disovery challenge.
Challenge Today: Who's your favorite artist? Look up some of their songs online and read through their lyrics from beginning to end without the music. What did you discover? How did you feel? Ask Jesus what He thinks about these lyrics. Now pray for that music artist and ask God if they are following His example of singing? Read Hebrews 12:1-2 Chat with God about it!
Watch Jimmy Needham's video "Clear the Stage" to the right.
What a miserable existence to have enough Jesus to be miserable in the world and enough world to be miserable in Jesus!-John Randall
Do you realize that Jesus sang and still does sing? Have you ever wondered what He would sound like? How about if He was your favorite vocalist and you were His greatest fan? Hmm what if you were His tour or band manager or His publicist? Wow Jesus sings? Yep He does!
Zephaniah 3:17 says On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Jesus sings songs of deliverance and joy over you and delights in you. It is a personal love song He sings and you get to tell the whole world about and follow Him everywhere He goes. Thats better than any music event or seeing the best artist perform and probably best yet Jesus sings for free and its free to everyone who wants to hear Him. With songs of praise focused lyrically on the truth of the gospel we become the mighty promotor of this love filled message.
During the Last Supper with His disciples He washed their feet and said I have given you an example. You should do as I have done for you. - John 13:14-15 Let's take His example and serve others in song. He sings so let us sing also. The world writes songs but have you ever looked up the lyrics and read all the way through. I did this to a recent song and I couldn't believe how simple mind boggling it was. It was about opening a door and the writer was asking people to open it and let people in. That's it. I said wow if I saw just the lyrics I might not like that song. To me it was about nothing worth hearing for 3-4 minutes. Then I realized how long I was singing along in my head and thought they were singing something completely different.
The best Bible study I ever heard on worship was when the pastor taught that music is an "on-ramp" to worship, that is, all music is putting you on a path to worship something. The word worship just means to ascribe worth to. Songs can be about a car, a girl, a guy, an icon, a drug, an experience, freedom, self, sex, attitude, the beat, the bass, a shoe, a door, or my dead dog fido. The possiblitlies are endless. It just has to have a good beat or a good producer. That's it. But as Christians we get to use lyrics to promote the best vocalist ever...Jesus! Either songs are about stuff in this world that will pass away or they are about....Jesus who will remain forever! What matters most? The next time that catchy song comes on...check out those lyrics and then decide if that artist is truly "worthy" of being a favorite vocalist and of you being their promoter. You might be surprised just what you find. Take the Disovery challenge.
Challenge Today: Who's your favorite artist? Look up some of their songs online and read through their lyrics from beginning to end without the music. What did you discover? How did you feel? Ask Jesus what He thinks about these lyrics. Now pray for that music artist and ask God if they are following His example of singing? Read Hebrews 12:1-2 Chat with God about it!
Watch Jimmy Needham's video "Clear the Stage" to the right.
What a miserable existence to have enough Jesus to be miserable in the world and enough world to be miserable in Jesus!-John Randall