“The greater the storm, the louder our song. We lift our voice up, we make your praise so glorious.”
That is a line from the song “Louder,” by Mark Redman. That line, especially the first part, has been running through my mind repeatedly … the greater the storm, the louder our song!
Our world is ablaze with storms, both literal and figurative. Weather patterns have been wild this year. There have been earthquakes and volcanos, floods, and droughts. As bad as those disasters are, they have affected relatively few compared to the other kinds of storms.
Wars, conflicts, radicalism, mass murders, shooting sprees, persecutions, fears, anxiety. It seems like the news opens every day with reports of the tempests that plague our world.
The church has felt herself assaulted in our country in ways we never thought possible. Maybe that’s the problem, we never thought it possible! We let our guard down. We grew comfortable in our plush chairs and expected that would go on until Jesus came. Whatever the reasons, in many areas of our society, Christian is no longer a welcome title.
So what should we do? I truly believe God’s Spirit is energizing some of our new song writers and they are putting forth praise, urging us to catch the wind of the Spirit … The greater the storm, the louder our song! The Spirit is telling the church to rise out of her plush chairs and begin to praise, praise louder and more fervently than ever before. It’s time to sing praise, shout praise, dance praise, clap praise and live praise.
It’s time to open our doors and let the world see us and hear us praising our God! Probably even time to take our praise outside our doors!
