Musical Monday

 

Music has always had an impact on our lives. It enhances our moods. It sometimes shapes our moods. It causes us to pour out our thoughts and feelings in singing along with a song that means something to us. Sometimes it causes our feet to move, our hands to clap, our bodies to sway in time with the rhythm that really does cut through our walls and touches our emotions. 

 

Romans 8 v 28-39 says:

^"28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 

More than anything, this passage is a reminder to Christians the He truly loves us.  No matter what challenges we face on this planet, everything He walks through with us will work out for the best.  As Christian women, we KNOW this passage, this promise to be true.  There is nothing we can do that will pull us from His grasp.

 

As Christian women in the military, no matter where our Command sends us, no matter where our spouses deploy, no matter how far away from family the military causes us to live, so long as He is the King of our Hearts, these seasons of challenges will pass, and will benefit us. 

 

Nothing in the military way of life is so permanent or so strong that He cannot triumph.  Not even death, for those of us who have suffered through the loss of a friend, familiy member, or spouse killed in combat or on duty.

 

This passage is a reminder of hope in Him, of His promise of love, of His declaration of protection, of His enduring promise to carry us.   As Christian women in the military, there is nothing we have to fear.

 

The following song is a beautiful praise and worship song that I encourage you all to sing today.  Lift up your beautiful voices in praise of the One who loves us more than we can comprehend!