There is power in song

What makes me such a fan of gospel music?


Well, needless to say, the melodies and arrangements are very pleasing to me, and strike my musical fancy. That along with the fact that gospel music is among the most singable music there is...meaning that you can sing along with most any song written...makes it something you can participate in wherever you hear it. Of course, the best thing about gospel music is its' subject matter...the greatest story ever told...and one that can't be told enough!

Those factors combine to make the experience of gospel music a powerful one for singer and listener alike...and its' power revealed itself strikingly for me again tonight.

For today was "one of those days"...I felt as if I were swimming uphill all day today. I know we've all had plenty of days like that.

But here, tonight, at my second job, with only the internet and All Quartets Radio to keep me company...it would have been all too easy to succumb to the waves of despair that threatened to drown out the pleasure that God had intended me to have...not only today, but every day!

A conversation with a good friend helped snap me out of my doldrums...then a song I heard from this tiny speaker in the trailer I sit in at work started to fill my ears with a wonderful, reassuring message.

And you know what? I started to sing along to myself, and the song and the ones that followed it took over my senses...and suddenly, the cares of my little world didn't seem all that fearsome after all!

Good music(in the literal and figurative sense)has the power to move and transform us...sometimes in a way a sermon or a book just can't approach. For a few moments, I had the same kind of confidence that say, LaDainian Tomlinson plays football with....knowing that no matter what may come against me, it can't stop me...with God overseeing everything, I WILL prevail!

Now I know there'll be times again when I despair and feel defeated, but I know that God always has a song for me...and those moments of despair won't last long!

May I(and all of you)have a song for Him, too...and hear the voices in your life that sing to you...and be inspired!

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