I Could Care Less About The Music.

I am a musician. I have a Bachelor of Music in Church Music degree which I worked my tail off for. I play more instruments then I have fingers; I play more instruments well then I have fingers on one hand. I am a musician. That being said, I have an odd statement to make: "I really could care less about music". I think at one point and time I did care about the music, but then God revealed to me His vastness and supremacy. My only desire now is one to declare that to the whole world.

Music is an amazing thing - it can soften the hardest hearts, it can bring people to tears, it can motivate and fire up armies about to go into battle - it is the greatest conveyor of emotion that exists in the world as we know it. Aligning Pitches placed in certain time spans apart from each other, attached with texts, is the melting pot that we commonly know as music. With the emotions that are attached with songs, it is no wonder that we can become so attached to certain songs; it is an emotional nostalgia of sorts.

The musician in me is proud of this - however more importantly then being a Musician I am a Christian. The Christian in me sees how unhealthy this is and has been to the church throughout history. We each are fighting an inner battle to get back to that point of Emotional Nostalgia whether it be "Open the Eyes of My Heart" that we sung at a camp when we where 13 or the singing of "I'll Fly Away" as a child with our parents in church - each is an unhealthy desire. As Christians it is important for us to remember times in our life in which God has worked inside of us, however we should not tear down or destroy what God is doing now in order to return to that emotional place within us.

I could care less about music. Such an odd statement from a musician? The chief end of man is to glorify God. I am not called to be a Church Musician - my call is to be a teacher of Worship to God's people. How can we declare to God His worth each Sunday in a way that we are broken before Him declaring there is nothing good in us apart from Him? How can we come to God each Sunday and understand His sacrifice for us and declare His Worth for it? How can we come to God each Sunday as a diverse people unified?

I could care less about the music. The purpose of my life is to Glorify God - True Worship occurs in a Church when it is unified in that statement.











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