Music And DiscipleshipSample

"Sustain and Resolve"

Discipleship is really a rhythm of tension and resolve, much like music. It is the tensions in music—when two instruments or notes collide—that grips us and causes us to lean in; awaiting the beautiful resolve. Discipleship should not ignore tensions, minimize pain, gloss over doubt, or take them lightly for they point toward brilliant resolves to come. For crying out loud, the whole book of Habakkuk could be summed up as a book that helps us to doubt in a Godly way. God wants us to experience the depth of the human experience, and find him in every breaking swell. We must learn as disciples to be shaped by and through all that God allows our way under his Sovereign hand.

God may compose a time in our story that lingers deeply with darkness and minor harmony. He might trip us up with quick accidentals that go outside our box and key. Rather than rejecting these moments of dissonance as altogether useless, we can submit our thinking to their purpose and begin to unlock some of the deeper motifs that are written within our song. These strains and experiences can lose their weight of despair and even produce in us hope if we search for their purpose and their ultimate resolution; as we see the reason for our suffering.

As you read through the Scriptures provided for today, embrace the suffering in the text, but also notice the resolve. What would we lose if the suffering had not been there?