Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
THE MELODY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
I went into downtown Minneapolis in mid-March to hear Erin Keefe perform Beethoven’s Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 61.
Before the concert began, the Holy Spirit called me to separate myself from everything but the music—for this would be the Melody of the Holy Spirit.
The orchestra had no idea I was within their music, but the Holy Spirit knows if I am within His Melody. No matter how small my part, I am an instrument in His orchestra. And if I am not playing in His orchestra, then nothing I do holds true significance.
As I became immersed in His melody, swept into the harmony of the Spiritual Kingdom of God, I realized something profound—He was not caught up in my small, earthly world. And that is as it should be. If I want to experience God, I must enter into His Kingdom here on earth and abide in Him there. I cannot ask Him to come into my world merely to do my bidding, to follow me where I go. No—He leads, and I follow.
That afternoon at Orchestra Hall, I lost myself in the music, and in doing so, I found a deep, abiding peace. God was in control of my life. And when I returned home, the worry I had carried—a confounding issue with a printing company—had inexplicably resolved itself. I had spent so much time fretting over something that had never been mine to control.
He had been in control all along. And He always will be.