So, leading worship this semester for Baptist Campus Ministry has been really fun and I feel like the group is really starting to mesh and find our niche with one another as we lead others in worship. This week we are going old school and singing hymns from the good ol days, i.e. I saw the light, Joyful joyful, Solid Rock, It is well, and Come Thou Fount. We wanted to do Have a Little Talk with Jesus, but the girls couldn't carry the bass line. Last night as we were wrapping our minds around these songs and putting them together, there were a couple lines from Joyful Joyful that jumped off the page and punched me in the Adam's apple. You know how there are those central Biblical truths you know, but sometimes you need to be reminded and God does an awesome job at doing that! Well this is one of those times. The lines are:
Father love is reigning o’er us,
Brother love binds man to man.
Brother love binds man to man.
Henry J. van Dyke smacked the ball out of the park in my opinion. (The guy who wrote the song) It was first published in 1911 and still to this day is relevant and true. But out of any lines in the song, those two rang the truest in my head and heart. Our Father God is reigning/raining his love down on us, and he does not give us love to squander, but instead to bind us together as brothers and sisters, every human being. We are called to embrace one another in love. To learn from each other. Sometimes we just want to fix all the problems and we get so focused on repairing that we forget the person involved. But instead I think God calls us not to solve all the probelms, but to sit with one another in those probelms and to experience it with one another, so we may know we are not alone in this. SO let us embrace the truth of these words.
Put down your busy-umbrella and feel God's love raining down on us and then go splash in some puddles with your brothers and sisters!
A.T.
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