anxiety
6 December 2009
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again and again
trembling and great tension
spirit filled life where to find?
no other than in the Lord
were it a more complex remedy
something more tangible to see
but instead we are told “faith,”
and in scripture do bathe
I am such a confounded Greek
my own wisdom ceaseless do I seek
but in my life I do attest
Christ crucified is the wisdom best
again and again
trembling and great tension
I to myself preach the gospel
and some peace the anxiety does dispel
I know this is going to be redundant, but thanks again, Gavin: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody in your hearts to the Lord” (Col. 3:16). Thanks for making “melody” out of your pain and struggles. Thanks that you “to yourself preach the gospel” (and to us) through your poetry.
Sorry, this will be a long post, but I just wanted to share some thoughts I’ve been having lately. I’ve been really involved in the Tidewater House of Prayer lately, and their vision is “restoring the tabernacle of David.” Acts 15:16-17: “After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord.” David is a type of Christ: the king “after God’s own heart.” The tabernacle he built was different from the one Moses built. I am told that David put the Ark in a tent with no veil, for all Israel to come and behold! And he assigned musicians to work in shifts and have day and night worship going on for God 24 hours! And this is the kind of environment the church is now supposed to create, wherein “the rest of mankind may seek the Lord.” Perhaps God is calling you to minister in the restored “tabernacle of David”–to minister both the God and to those who would come to “seek the Lord.”
When David built his “tabernacle of David,” it seems that God released the greatest wave of revelation since the time of Moses (the Psalms of David, Asaph his worship leader, and various others). And the revelation that was released under King David’s reign was more life-giving than that given under Moses (II Cor 3:7-8). As they praised and worshiped the Lord, God invaded their worship with prophecies of blessings to come, a coming King, and coming age of blessings over which this King would preside; salvation, not just for Israel, but for the rest of the nations of the earth!
I write this hoping maybe you can connect with my thoughts, since you’re contemplating a future with music, etc., and at the same time wrestling through your relationship with God and the world, like David did, and putting it into verse. I’ll stop now, though. God bless you, man!
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