The Awesome Power of Music and Songs

Last night our girls ball game was cancelled so we decided to have team photos and play a game of Kalifornia Kick Ball along with the parents. We had just nicely gotten into the top of the 3rd inning when ZZZZZZAP CRASH BOOOOOOM a massive lightening and thunder storm came over our heads. That was the end of kickball! After a few seconds of what-should-we-do-now, we decided to hustle the girls and the few adults there down to the local restaurant for some good old fashioned ice cream cones. While we were there some guy showed up with his big expensive Karaoke machine and to our surprise we found ourselves smack dab in the middle of Karaoke night at the Peachland Garage Grill and Pump. Well, the rest is history. The kids started singing songs, laughing, ribbing each other, some started being the back up singers to the two or three girls that were singing. Some of the kids could really sing and some of them, well, you know they did try anyway! I even ended up joining in on the fun and sang one song with Paige and one song with Mackenzie. We stayed there for over an hour and a half and everyone went home with a little ice cream in their tummies and a big smile on their faces (adults included).
Music and songs are such powerful things. They have the power to make us laugh or cry. They have the power to attach themselves to our memories and suddenly take us back to those moments. They have the power to take a good time and turn it into a great time. We are made to hum or sing or just be moved by music and song by a humming, singing, dancing creative God. The stack of evidence is thick. Just look in the bible and see the poetry, the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. From funeral durges to loud angelic choirs and from flutes to drums it's all in there. We are instructed that making music and melodies in our hearts to God is meant the be a picture of a heart set free from sin and engaged by the beauty of the savior. Interestingly enough in the end times one of the things that the angels will destroy is mentioned in Rev 18:22 "The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters,will never be heard in you again." One of my favorite passages of the scripture is found in Zeph 3:17 "The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
I can almost hear him.....