January 12, 2012
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Learning to Make Music For Love, Not For Selfishness
Last night Sky and I had some time of worship before praying together. We are continuing to learn how to sing together. My voice is a lot lower than hers, of course. She plays the guitar for us and her pace is sometimes a bit different from how I am used to singing a song. And so often it will take a verse or two before we are singing in harmony and at the same tempo, and even then we aren’t always confident/strong in our singing. Last night we had some sweet moments while singing out, but we both know our singing together is going to get a lot better with time. While we both sound good separately, once we get our harmony and tempo completely down our worship is going to sound so much more powerful together.
And so it is with marriage. Two different melodies and tempos coming together. It can sound like noise at times, especially early on, but as unity grows the music becomes amazing. There is definitely sacrifice in the process, but the end result is true gold.
Everyone knows the Beatles sounded best when Paul McCartney and John Lennon were together. Their solo acts were nothing compared to their work together, even though there was friction at times between them. I don’t think anyone would say Paul McCartney would have been better off making music alone, or that John Lennon would have been better off alone.
What’s interesting is that more and more young people are preferring to make music alone, and the songs of selfishness are increasing. Just yesterday on BBC news there was a video report of how more and more Japanese aren’t interested in relationships or even sex. The root of the reasoning was selfishness… the interviewed Japanese young people (like many young people around the world now) said they preferred doing their own thing rather than sacrificing their future for relationship. And as a result of this mindset, prostitution and pornography use are increasing because they are “quick and easy” outlets for gratification without a spouse.
The truth is that Jesus Himself produced such a song in heaven that all the host of heaven sang with Him and He never needed us to join in. But out of love, and for the increase of His glory, He came down and sacrificed His song for a time so that we too could know Him and accept Him and join in His song. His sacrifice has released music all over the earth. And as we live by His example of sacrifice, we too are readied to release beautiful music in our spouses, increasing the song of love around the world.
Sacrifice is what makes the music so beautiful. It’s as we adjust our melody and our tempo for others that we are able to join together in harmony and make the songs God so loves to listen to.
God bless!
