Rhema Time!

Rhema Time!

In the Presence of God, you never know what comes up next!

This morning, I was perusing the 4-fold purpose of God for man.  A personal study showed the purposes are Relationship, Character, Function and Reproduction.

Under Reproduction, one easily sees God created man to share some of His creative powers.  Under Function, God created man to have someone share in His function of ruling the universe.

And then the Rhema suddenly came upon me:  “Do you know you will be ruling the universe with Music?”  Even as I type this I’m flooded with Holy Spirit Power!  I was pleasantly Stunned and Delighted! 

“I never, ever thought of this before,” was my immediate response.  Indeed, we are so attuned and over-conditioned, on earth, to bureaucracy and administration, that I had not experienced a hint of music for Millennial rulers!

So be it!  “So that’s why Christian musicians work so hard down here!  It’s a preparation for the next life!  Not merely an occasional embellishment in this terse, earthly existence.  It’s a mystical, positive, audible foreshadowing!  Very, very nice!”

“Do you know what makes these perilous times even more perilous?” queried the Holy Spirit.  “ It is a lack of music foreshadowing my future Administration!  Listen!  THIS is the music I will reveal and want my family to grasp onto!  Don’t just emulate the world with a mousey second best!  I want to hear First Class Music in these very transient, perilous times!”

Wow.  I grew out of breath.  We are to stay vigilant for His Spirit creating in and through us, to enhance and empower Relationship, Character, Function and Reproduction, with the energy and power extracted from the musical substance we convey, bathing ourselves and others in, as His future administrators of the Universe! And then there was a sense of His Heavenly angelic choirs waiting to look into this!

“It’s what would have continued from Eden, had there been no sin,” He added.  “But now discernment is always needed as a final check.  My infused and lovingly imparted Divine Quality Control.  My sheep hear My voice.  Did not David sing as a shepherd?”  Of course  Of course!  He administered ordered and care and lovely sounds to His sheep! The throne of David is the throne of a musical shepherd!  Where there rules and reigns awesome Divine Power!    

(A final word on discernment: Satan works overtime, perhaps with a specially-trained demonic Special Forces unit, to influence and allure Divinely-gifted musicians into drugs, alcohol, perversions, deviations, the occult, profiteering priorities, and any combination thereof.  The spiritual High Quality of their output is then desecrated. Even Christian composers and performers have descended into this.  But musically there is Strength in Purity.  Discern what is tainted and rise above it!  Time to administer Power Music!  And that includes music which heals, bequeaths Joy, and honors Him as He always intended to be honored and celebrated!)