Created to Sing

The Wartburg, Eisenach, Germany

You have to stand in awe of rooms like the Great Hall in the Wartburg. I doubt that this hall had a similar appearance at the time of Luther, yet events might have been similar.

While we visited the Wartburg musicians were arriving for an evening concert. I can imagine that a concert in this hall would sound magnificent.

We Christians are musicians who play a special melody in this world that God has created.

"I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music." Psalm 101:1 English Standard Version

The Christian community sings of God's justice. All of us want justice. Most all of us believe that somewhere in our lives we have been wronged, maybe even by God, yet God is a just God. He is perfectly just and in his justice he declares us innocent of sin through the merits of his Son, Jesus Christ. This is melody line of the church.

The Christian community sings of the steadfast love of God. God's love for us broken human creatures is constant and consistent. His love never fails. Daily God pours his love on his church. Daily he feeds us. Daily he clothes us. It is the steadfast love of God that sings in harmony with his justice.

The world needs to hear the church sing in the great hall of God's creation. May we sing as God has gifted us.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.