Life Purpose, Oneness

The Lord is My Maestro

Paul Mancini on January 14, 2020 0 Comments • Tags: #lordismyshepherd #maestro #psalm23

As a non-musician or non-instrumentalist one hears the word orchestra and likely will visualize a group of people dressed in black and white formal wear sitting in rows of chairs on a stage arranged in a semi-circle all holding strangely shaped brass, silver, and wooden objects. Most instrumentalists do not play by ear. They have learned how to read music and understand what it is to follow the conductor’s lead. Vocalists not as much. Most of us are vocalists and sing by ear. As we hear things over and over, we learn to match the pitch. This is practicing and rehearsing.


But imagine an orchestra where all the instruments: saxophones, trumpets, oboes, bassoons, french horns, clarinets, flutes, violins, timpani, cellos, etc. are all sitting there beside the chairs or in the chairs, with no people present. The maestro is left without being able to produce a sound. No harmony, no melody, no musical story to tell, silence. Those instruments cannot play themselves. And although the true Maestro is the conductor of the orchestra, is the author of music, is the inventor of communication, the creator of a device transmitting a message, and the creator of devices that are able to translate the message and receive it, without people He is paralyzed, He is silenced, of no effect and Maestro to no one. Could the Maestro cause the instruments to make noise, sound the music and create harmony without people? without us? Yes, of course. Take a walk in nature on a warm humid summer night and just listen. You’ll soon understand where the idea for an orchestra came from.


But does He want to? Does He want to make music, communicate, by Himself? I argue no. He wants for us to work at becoming proficient in producing a sound that He could produce Himself. With His leading, with His direction, with His Mastering, He desires for us to make the sound WITH Him, make the sound AS Him. We talk about sexual intimacy oftentimes as “a husband and wife make love”. What God desires is to CREATE and COMMUNICATE His love. He is love and we can make love or CREATE love with Him. We are allowed to communicate who He is, as He is, being One with Him. We can’t live the Divine Life without being the Divine Life. The One-ness with Himself is the journey of our life, the good, the bad, the wins, the trials. He’s not trying to make us perfectly holy. He is perfecting our relationship with Himself, the One-ness is what He is in hot pursuit of. 


If I did become perfectly holy then what? Do I get a prize, an award? And when is holy… holy enough? He is perfecting our One-ness with Him. One-ness with Him makes us holy just by the very nature of who He is. The Maestro is the Master, the expert, the inventor, the Creator, the designer, the composer, the virtuoso, the director. He KNOWS the music (His LIFE) like no other. He does not want to present and perform the music Himself. He wants us, each of us, to sound our instrument, the unique version of Him. As a masterpiece, a piece of the Master, the Maestro’s instrument, I must play my notes when He leads me to. And when we play our notes together, each of us, all of us, the sound of the notes, the message, the harmony, the Body of music, the One-ness of the Maestro is communicated into the universe. The perfect One-ness of the relationship with Him ought to produce in the lives of others an attraction, a love, and longing for God. If this is true, then the excellence of my instrument, ME essentially, will draw people to the Maestro. Our One-ness as an orchestra ought to draw people to the Maestro, to sit at His feet and worship. One band, one sound. One voice, one sound. One Body, one sound.

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