The night I posted about the 80's, I went to bed with lyrics going through my head that were not welcome. I haven't thought about some of those songs in 20 years and all of a sudden the words were rushing back through my mind. Call me crazy, and maybe it's because I deeply feel most everything, but it made me ponder the purpose and power of music and it made me so incredibly sad for all those on the entertainment scene who are being used as pawns in the spirit realm without a knowledge of the Holy One. I mean, think about it -- we can remember crazy weird lyrics from songs in our teen years but we can't remember how to do an Algebra problem or who sat next us in Biology in 9th grade or the Bible verse from last week. But set any of that to music and it's set in our minds for years to come. Truly music is a weapon and an opportunity to partner with the heart of the Living God. It's been recently (ok, so in the last, what, 50 years or so?) that scientists have figured out that matter IS music. Like at a level that we cannot see with the naked eye, matter is waves of sound. There are even people out there who make their lives out of creating music from DNA chains. So at our very core and molecular level - WE ARE A SONG. When our song is joined with God'a song, it's harmonic and joyful. When we begin singing another song, we experience dischord and chaos. Chaos - huh - typing as I think - like Genesis 1. Did God SING things into existence?? He will do that in the restoration of all things - Hosea 2 talks about "In that day God will 'respond'". The word "respond" can literally be translated "SING". Ohmygosh - this is so much deeper than I can even begin to think about or blog about with any kind of wisdom. Perhaps that what my spirit was experiencing the night I threw out my YES album -- the invitation to sing and harmonize with a greater song and the Creator of all music. This invokes the fear of the Lord in my heart.