If you haven't figured it out yet, I LOVE music. I am not a massively talented musician because I never put in enough time to become one. However, I do dabble and I enjoy it immensely. I love all kinds of music. As Tim McGraw once put it, "It's just good music if you can feel it in your soul." I 100% agree. One type of music I really enjoy is hymns. My mother was always playing the hymns and the primary children's hymns growing up. My father would sing along. I learned the hymns. Not just a few, but most of them and most of the verses. I often hear that memorizing scriptures is helpful to many people at many times. They can pop up in your mind when you need them most. This is music for me.
Often times I hear a song, remember it, it comes to me at a time I need it, and then I don't think of the song much after I have gotten the strength I needed from it. For example, any time someone talks about forgiveness I think of a song that says, "I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter... and I think it's about forgiveness!" This only pops up with forgiveness.
Today my motivation is one song that pops up more than once. This song has given me incredible strength when I have needed it. I don't attach it to a single memory or subject. It is simply attached to life on occasions when I really need it. In the 3rd verse of "How Firm a Foundation" the words read:
Often times I hear a song, remember it, it comes to me at a time I need it, and then I don't think of the song much after I have gotten the strength I needed from it. For example, any time someone talks about forgiveness I think of a song that says, "I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter... and I think it's about forgiveness!" This only pops up with forgiveness.
Today my motivation is one song that pops up more than once. This song has given me incredible strength when I have needed it. I don't attach it to a single memory or subject. It is simply attached to life on occasions when I really need it. In the 3rd verse of "How Firm a Foundation" the words read:
Fear not, I am with thee
O be not dismayed
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid.
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by my righteous omnipotent hand
How glorious these words are to my soul! "For I am they God and will still give thee aid". No matter what has happened, no matter how we feel, He will still give you aid! Have I felt this strength? Have I felt this help? Have I been lifted off my feet to stand? Yes a thousand times over. He truly is omnipotent (all powerful)! For these reasons I cannot fear. This song comes to me only at certain times. You know how during the Cold War there was a man sitting in a hole with a button that would send a nuclear bomb as a last resort? How when there was nothing left then this man would be told to push the button because they couldn't risk what was going to happen? Well, "Fear not, I am with thee" turns up when I feel ready to alert the man with the button. When I don't know what to do and I've tried really hard to know. He helps me stand.
