Music for Sunday 24 January 2010
January 22, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne
Filed under News, Random Jottings, worship meetings
David wrote in Psalm 51:
Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record.
Scrub away my guilt,
soak out my sins in your laundry.I know how bad I’ve been;
my sins are staring me down.You’re the One I’ve violated, and you’ve seen
it all, seen the full extent of my evil.
You have all the facts before you;
whatever you decide about me is fair.I’ve been out of step with you for a long time,
in the wrong since before I was born.What you’re after is truth from the inside out.
Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean,
scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life.Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,
set these once-broken bones to dancing.Don’t look too close for blemishes,
give me a clean bill of health.God, make a fresh start in me,
shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.Don’t throw me out with the trash,
or fail to breathe holiness in me.(The Message)
John Gowans words, which the Songsters will sing this Sunday morning, In this quiet moment, to music by Ivor Bosanko, echo this heart cry of David. It is a simple prayer, which we can all echo on a frequent basis. A prayer to be set free from our evil nature and desires and to become the people we want to be and which God has created us to be:
In this quiet moment, still before your throne,
Conscious of your presence, knowing I am known.
In this quiet moment, set my spirit free.
In this quiet moment, make a better me.
We turn back to the Psalms on Sunday evening too for the inspiration behind the song, God of my praise. The words are based in part on Psalm 95:
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
What better way is there to spend a Sunday evening? So why not come along to our meetings this Sunday at 10:30am and 6:00pm at The Salvation Army, Meredith Street, Cradley Heath B64 5EP?
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Rob Westwood-Payne grew up in The Salvation Army at Norwich Citadel. He left Norwich to study at the University of Warwick and became fully involved in the music centre there culminating in his conducting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a full house in Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He also transferred to The Salvation Army at Coventry City, where he became Songster Leader at the age of 21. He was made Songster Leader at Cradley Heath in April 1998 shortly before marrying Gail in the following October. He is a former leader of the West Midlands Divisional Youth Chorus and is currently Programme Director at the West Midlands Divisional Summer School for The Salvation Army. He is an Associate Solicitor in the Licensing Team of a national practice based in the south west.
