Composition

I recently discovered a new station on the radio…it’s classical music! I stumbled upon it while accidentally going 2 stations over from AIR1, and now I have a new station to listen to when I need some calm, relaxing music. As I listen to this, I realize how amazingly awesome these composers must be. They hear in their minds every single part, played by every single instrument in the orchestra. Not only do they have to be knowledgeable and in tune with every instrument, but they somehow are able to put them all together, every part and harmony, to make this compilation that is able to manipulate emotion. (Side note: I find it completely bewildering, yet refreshing that the manipulation of music is able to get different emotions out of us. Like, you know when the artist/composer is expressing anger or happiness… it’s crazy!) So basically, composers are awesome.

Now, I’m going to go out on a limb here and compare the composer to God [note: clearly I’m not saying the composer is a God or can even come close to being God; I’m speaking metaphorically ;) ] God has written our world, and our own personal song. He has written our part and has strategically placed us with other people (friends, family, etc) to create this harmonic display of our lives. He’s all-knowing, just like the composer is all-knowing of the piece he has written. God is in control, he has written our song and he knows when something is out of tune. It could be you or someone else who is out of tune in your life, negatively affecting the composition He has created for you. So we must go to Him to fix our instrument, to make it in tune, or perhaps we need to go to Him to discuss whether someone needs to be kicked out of the orchestra if a person is affecting the music extremely badly. We want our orchestra to be the best it can be.

What type of music are you playing in your life? Is it clouded with poor musicians? Is God your conductor, or is someone/thing else? Are your playing classical music? Or pop music, influenced artificially and manipulated in such a way that it takes away from the realness and naturalness that it was originally intended to be? What I mean is, pop and rap music is often so synthesized, so altered by technology that the whole composition becomes fake, nothing left is real. Perhaps that is why I love acoustic music, it’s so raw and pure that you know the artist is pouring his or her soul out to you and not trying to cover it up by other things. For the sake of my argument, the technologically altered music is covered by the patterns of this world, while acoustic or classical music truly portrays God’s original plans in our lives, showing a deep and real individual who is actively living to follow Jesus and making themselves vulnerable in order to truly submit themselves to God’s will. [wow can you say run-on sentence? Haha oh well] I hope you are playing God’s original score for your lives and allowing it to come together to make something beautiful, to make magic!