I realized the sky is the limit with music. While a bit depressing it was surprisingly uplifting at the same time. I noticed an a real way that no matter how much I improve as a musician and worshiper of Christ there will always be more. A new season, a new chord, a new melody, a new tone, a new style, a new lyric, a new depth, revelation, closeness, frustration, victory, truth... (the list goes on...) and with every single day and hour celebration through music, honoring what God is doing. With music alone there is so much to lean that a lifetime is too short to really get what you want or express how you feel. And again this is always changing, just as you are constantly growing so does your soul. A new depth arrives in your words that you never had before, you may even sing the same lyrics but the meaning has completely changed, or there are new lyrics and fresh meaning along with them to apply and strive for in faith! That fact is your worship is always different and changing as you do. Your expression is also developing as you do. And while there is something unsettling about it all, there is something inside all of us that understands it, and even yearns for it.
Eternity.
How amazing is it to think God put eternity in our hearts. (explains some things doesn't it!) While a lifetime isn't enough to worship God or even express how you feel about what He has done or is doing, eternity is. I realized this was Gods plan all along, that we would worship Him in Spirit and truth forever. He is giving us all the desire of our new hearts! In every moment, in every season we will learn a new song, a new depth from which our hearts will worship. The context will be ever changing, the music constantly evolving (not that music is the only worship), but yes there is something that will remain the same! God. His love, His truth, His nature, His saving power through grace, His goodness in all things, and forever more... God remains the center of our worship. The One Holy Savoir.
Awesome.
There is more than can be said but for now, I will worship God for who He is, and was, and is to be! I will learn in every waking moment what it means to worship this God of love who was not created and died for me while I was still a sinner.
To Live Is Christ!
Matt Redman 'You Never Let Go' Bridge:
Yes, I can see a light that is coming
For the heart the holds on
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
Still I will praise You, still I will praise You
