When God created our unbelievably huge and complex universe, He declared that what His hands had wrought was good. It hasn’t changed. It still is good. Only God, the Creator, could create out of chaos a cosmos; out of nothing, something; out of disharmony, harmony.
Everything that God has made was created “in tune” – the voice of man, the whisper of the wind, the laughter of little brooks, and the thunderous throb of the mighty oceans. Everything in nature is full of melody and is alive with divine rhythm, from the harmonious growth of the budding leaves in the spring, to the growth and beauty and production of growing things of summer, and to the scattering of the seeds of another season on the blustery winds of November.
There is precision and harmony in the path of the great planets in our galaxy as they move with unchangeable accuracy around their lord, the sun….and there is also precision and harmony in the countless galaxies beyond the one where we live and move and have our being, each with its own individual uniqueness. Even so, all of them are bound together in one majestic musical composition.
Longfellow was right when he said that “music is the universal language of mankind.” That is because he was aware that music is the language of our Creator. He has woven a marvelous sense of timing and rhythm into the very fabric of our lives and into the entire universe about us.
Forget for even one hour the secular influences that literally clamor for your attention, for they will draw your interest away from the harmony and music that Our Creator has designed to be at the heart of what is important in life. Turn off your inane and intellectually stupefying television set long enough to go somewhere where the din of man’s noises cannot be heard. Breathe deeply into your lungs a breath of invigorating air and drink in the beauty of God’s green productive earth as it puts on clothes in the decorative colors of autumn.
May God give us the wisdom to shut out the noises around us that clamor for our attention and for our loyalty. They will install us on a sidetrack that leads in the opposite direction from the kind of life He designs for us to travel. Let us breathe deeply into our lungs a breath of invigorating air during the days of autumn as the beauty of God’s green productive earth as it puts on clothes in the decorative colors of autumn. Let us anticipate that beyond the turning of a few pages of life the trumpet sounds of spring will once again pierce the air.
God’s music has always been “in tune.” It still is – and it always will be.I hope you are listening!
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