Finding Your Song--Finding God

Our emotions ebb and flow throughout the day.  Emotions are dictated by our level of energy, the circumstances of the moment, the level of stress in our life, and the degree to which we determine our self-worth.  All of us need something to help us through the tough moments when we need inspiration.

I have always found the gift of music to help me find an inner song to lift my spirit when I need it the most.  That song can come from a variety of genres.  I enjoy all kinds of music from classical all the way to rock.  I like many of the different types of music along the whole spectrum of music.  I will hit 'seek' on the radio scrolling through music until the right song emerges.  We instinctively know when the right song is being sung we need to listen to in the moment.  Maybe it is a song of reflection, or one of high energy, and possible one that you have not heard before but the rhythm of the song suits your ears.
I can recall songs vividly to particular moments in my life when I needed those songs the most.  I remember songs related to crisis moments, celebration moments, key events in my faith journey, and songs that simply fill my soul with joy.

I give thanks for the variety of music styles that I enjoy.  It is easy to like a particular kind of music and only listen to that genre.  When this happens we miss out on the gift of what other music forms have to offer to us.  We miss out on gifts that can speak to us in significant junctions in our life journey. 

The same can be said for how we understand God.  We can tend to put God in a box and expect God to act and behave in specific ways.  The best conception of God that we have is only a small glimpse of who God can really be in our lives.  We need a wide variety of perspectives of how God can be informative and inspirational in our life.  The Bible offers so many metaphors for how God can be known to us.  No metaphor is perfect, but every metaphor is helpful: source, sovereign, rock, cloud, fortress, fountain, shelter, light, judge, defender, mercy, might, shepherd, father, mother hen, etc.

When we limit God we limit how God as a song can meet us when we need it the most.  Let the breadth of God be wide and deep enough to be the song that cares for our soul.

Grace and Peace,

Rev. Dr. Chris Wilson