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22/11/2009 by David.
Today was a miserable wet November day and I got soaked. But I still managed to book seats for the Bristol Choral Society’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah - and Val arrived from Weston in good time.The performance was wonderful and I sat with the tears running down my face more than once as the words of Scripture were so majestically set to music.Elijah has to pray for rain after defeating the prophets of Baal on Carmel - and then he goes off in a blue funk because Jezebel threatens him.There are some moments in classical music that are pure magic - and Elijah’s wish to die - set against the solo cello’s counterpoint is one of those. ”It is enough….”I have been there too - and I didn’t have a meal cooked by angels - but I realised that the same God of Israel - the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - ministered to my self-centredness with as powerful an effect!Poor me! Little me! No better than my forebears - but a great God who understands depression in His people and is able to speak - not through earthquake wind or fire - but by the still small voice of Holy Spirit influence - is able to restore my confidence - and set me back on the road of further obedience.I salute the memory of 200 years of Mendelssohn - he understood the story and the man - and he understood how God restores and forgives, and redirects.Through his musical genius he gives the words of scripture their rightful place - and, despite the rain (which I loathe) he brought me by his music to the same God who’s ministry is to heal and redirect.
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