THE MUSIC FADED

I love Sundays. I find them great days to refresh and rejuvenate physically and spiritually, before getting into another week. Going to church helps me to re-energize. It offers me a time to fellowship with other believers, which I really cherish.

With the current situation, It is now five weeks since we attended church as we know it. Like so many other things,  it had never occurred to us that going to church was actually a great privilege. Same way, going to work, to market places, to farms, to hotels were just normal things.

This last week I was pondering over the story behind the  Song The Heart of Worship by Matt Redman. It was written in the 1990s when believers in that church had become so apathetic and accustomed to instruments of worship that they were no longer truly worshiping. They went to church, but majorly for the good nice,music. The song was written as a wake-up call to the believers to go back to a Heart of Worship, when its purely about Jesus.

As I look at the turn of events due to Corona, I am beginning to think that for believers, it is yet another opportunity to go back to true worship. We have enjoyed the warmth of fellowship so much, but this is the time to go home and worship together as a family. It is the time to say that though the music has faded (or Reggae has stopped as some like to say) and church buildings have been closed, our bodies will now be the temples of the Holy Spirit as the Scripture exhorts us. Even with the buildings closed, remember that God is answering the prayers that His faithfuls are making from their homes.

I pray that this season will be a time that we can seek the Lord earnestly, individually and as families. That when the church buildings reopen, the fellowship will be even stronger because individually, we will all have been strengthened.I pray that the fire at the family altars shall be rekindled never to be put out again. That a revival shall happen right at the family