Communion

                                             

          What's happening my friends!!! It's been awhile I know.....but I'm glad to still
 Be able to do this! We should take advantage of every means to get the word out and be an encouragement to someone. I was thinking earlier this week about the reason we were created by God. Many people have different answers for this question. Some think we are on this earth to make as much money as possible...some to have as much sex as possible...some seem like they are only here to eat everyone else out of house and home! All of these things were created by God and used in their proper context are not bad in and of themselves.... But we have made gods of them and we do all we can do to fill those desires and needs that have been created. The first chapter of Romans addresses this as "worshipping the creature more than the creator".....when what we were really created to do was to worship or commune with God! When God created man, he made him in his own image and in his own Likeness and then breathed into man everything that he is.....solely that he would have someone to commune with on his own level! Adam could talk to God and understand what God was talking about when they did so. Adam had the wisdom and intelligence that God had given him and their relationship was intact until Adam thought he would go after something he already had! He already has wisdom...and he already had eternal life...( there was no death yet...only regeneration) when he did this it broke the link that they had and it could not be repaired by saying "I'm sorry!" there had to be blood shed. This is where Jesus comes in......HIS perfect sacrifice repairs that breach when we apply the Blood he shed for us! In order to have communion with God there must be intimacy and agreement....well when we are out of fellowship with God we can't be intimate and we certainly can't agree because we are in the wrong! We can't commune unless we can agree with him....if we don't agree with ALL of the word of God and what He calls right or wrong, we can't commune. Gods greatest desire toward us Is to be able to commune with us...to talk with us in the cool of the day...reason with us...so much so that he gave his only son to restore that communion with man that was lost when Adam fell. From that time to this, that is the true heart of God...restoring the fellowship he once had with man.
On the music Side of things, there is a level of communion that goes on when we're in an ensemble context between the musicians. Our communion with God is primarily vertical, through the blood of Jesus...but one of the often neglected elements is our horizontal ones....the ones With people. We can't expect to have effective communion with God and not even be able to relate to our fellow human beings! Musicians....learn the language of music so you can commune with your fellow musicians and not just "talk at them" when we learn how God thinks and his ways ( through the word) we are learning the language of God ( stuff that Adam knew) now we have to go to school to re-learn all the things Adam forgot after the fall!!!.......learn to read....become proficient on your instrument, study styles and new genres so you can commune with more than just musicians who look like you!...all of this affords you the ability to say more than just a few sentences on your chosen instrument. Its all about an intimate eye to eye, peer to peer level of communication. Do this....you won't regret a deeper relationship with God AND man!....Blessings!!!