For such a time as this

This has been a spiritually and creatively significant week.

On Monday, I wrote my first song in years.

On Wed, I wrote my second.

It's been a long detour [background story] and it's good to be back.

My current focus is so different from when I first began as a teen, writing for pleasure and self-expression.

Now I am fulfilling a long dormant dream, writing music around Scripture. Think Colin Buchanan, Snack Music and Steve Green. (Especially Steve Green.)

As the Bible says:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
2 Tim. 3:16

There is nothing more potent than God's Word when it is accurately and effectively communicated, received and applied.

Add to that the universal language of music, singing and playing instruments, and you get a powerful partnership.

I feel a little like a child being led on an amazing journey, eyes round with wonder, hand holding tightly on to my Father's, trying to listen carefully to what He wants me to put down in music.

My challenge is to stick as closely to the NIV text as possible, to allow the God-breathed potency of Scripture to speak with full power to those who hear, while making sure the song itself remains easy on the ear and voice.

This morning, the thought occurred to me: I shy from telling someone face to face about God's love because I struggle to find the right words to say. But through music, I can accomplish the same purpose.

Perhaps this is why He has restored the gift of composing to me after a hiatus of 24 years.

To paraphrase Mordecai when he encouraged Queen Esther to take up the cause of the Jews, who knows but that I have come to creative abundance for such a time as this?