(PART 5/5) PEOPLE OF THE WORD
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” (Colossians 3:16)
I took some time to pray about Part 5. Honestly, I was hoping to come up with something more on the profound side. But as I prayed over the last week or two about it, I just sensed God leading me to go back to basics.
I can sense eye-rolls at this moment. Let’s be real: More and more Christians these days don’t believe the Bible is “God-breathed.” BUT…the fact that Jesus Himself quoted the Old Testament writings as divine revelation - and that His immediate apprentices not only did the same but referred to each-other’s writings as “God-inspired scripture” - makes a case that the Bible is more than just good wisdom-literature.
Christ-followers have made the study of scripture an essential practice for millennia. If the Bible IS (or at least contains the Word Of God) then wouldn’t it make sense to consider time in the scriptures a crucial part of “abiding” in Christ? Many legendary songwriters - that I either know of or know personally- cite the Scriptures as their primary source of inspiration.
I could be crazy but it seems plain to me that in an era of literally billons of voices (yes…including this post), oceans of information and misinformation, there’s never been a more important time to be consuming God’s truth. (As Jesus was quoted to have said in a conversation with God the Father: “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth”)
Christian Music Makers, let’s create music drawn from the Source of Truth. Truth which alone holds the secrets to an abundant and everlasting life.