The Conductor

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When my kids were in middle school they each expressed an interest in learning to play an instrument. Our son, Cody, wanted to learn to play the trumpet, and our daughter, Abby, had aspirations to play the flute. We made sure they both had instruments on which to practice. They had individual lessons on them and before long they could play the lead line of some songs that we could even recognize coming from behind the doors of their bedrooms! Yes, we celebrated their accomplishments!

There were no harmonies to their songs. It wasn't possible to play the lead line and add harmony at the same time. However, once they began to play in the concert band something happened that was so beautiful. Other people playing other instruments began to add parts and rhythms to create something bigger. Of course, if they all played ALL their notes at the same time it sounded like a jumbled collection of noises. It took the direction of one man or woman, known as the conductor, to stand on a riser in front of them and direct them all to bring a beautiful song to life. Each musician maintained eye contact with the conductor and watched for their cue to begin to play. From beginning to end as their contribution was called for they would join in to create the song collective.

There is a great song being played that started before the world began. God's song has had many ebbs and flows. There have been great verses and quiet ones, mysterious and joyful, anticipatory and even sad overtures. Even when the Son of God breathed His last on the cross and the whole earth shuddered under the weight of heaven's most sorrowful song God never stepped down from His throne. He never stopped leading all of Creation in His beautiful, eternal song. Today you and I are part of God's glorious refrain and it is an exquisite one! Even the hard parts of our verses are full of the hope we have in Christ. Some day all of us, from the beginning of time until the grand finale, will gather together around His Heavenly throne and that encore will last forever!

"After this, I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, 'Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!'" Revelation 7:9-10 (ESV)

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