The Rhythm of Faith
Tony R. Nester
Psalm 30:5
This morning I want to place a verse of Scripture deep into your heart. If you don't need this verse this morning, then give it space to dwell within you, for the time will come when you'll need to claim its promise.
The verse is from Psalm 30:5. I'd like you to say it with me:
Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Let me tell you a true story about this verse.
In 1987, one of the world's great jazz pianists was facing heart disease. He was only 47 years old. His name was Dave Brubeck, and he performed the first jazz album to sell over a million copies.
Dave Brubeck said that composing music was a form of meditation and prayer for him. And so, as he lay in his hospital bed the evening before his first angiogram, he began composing music based on Psalm 30.
Later he underwent triple-bypass surgery, which was a more dangerous operation then than it is today. He felt the fear and anxiety before the surgery, and then relief and joy as he came out of it with renewed strength.
A few years later he was commissioned to compose music to celebrate an anniversary of the Connecticut Health Center with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
''I remembered Psalm 30,'' he said, ''the piece I had started in anxious hours in the hospital. This was my opportunity to 'tell of His faithfulness and to praise Him.' I titled the three-movement composition ... Joy in the Morning quoting from Psalm 30, 'Weeping may tarry for a night, but Joy comes with the morning.'''
Dave Brubeck lived to be 92 years of age, dying of heart failure on December 5, 2012.
As a musician, Dave Brubeck, understood rhythm, and the Psalms are rhythmic in the emotions they express.
The rhythm of Psalm 30 is encapsulated in the verse 5. There is weeping that lasts through a night of sorrow, but then joy comes with the morning. We are pushed down, but then we are raised up. We think all is lost, and then ...
Tony R. Nester
Psalm 30:5
This morning I want to place a verse of Scripture deep into your heart. If you don't need this verse this morning, then give it space to dwell within you, for the time will come when you'll need to claim its promise.
The verse is from Psalm 30:5. I'd like you to say it with me:
Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Let me tell you a true story about this verse.
In 1987, one of the world's great jazz pianists was facing heart disease. He was only 47 years old. His name was Dave Brubeck, and he performed the first jazz album to sell over a million copies.
Dave Brubeck said that composing music was a form of meditation and prayer for him. And so, as he lay in his hospital bed the evening before his first angiogram, he began composing music based on Psalm 30.
Later he underwent triple-bypass surgery, which was a more dangerous operation then than it is today. He felt the fear and anxiety before the surgery, and then relief and joy as he came out of it with renewed strength.
A few years later he was commissioned to compose music to celebrate an anniversary of the Connecticut Health Center with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
''I remembered Psalm 30,'' he said, ''the piece I had started in anxious hours in the hospital. This was my opportunity to 'tell of His faithfulness and to praise Him.' I titled the three-movement composition ... Joy in the Morning quoting from Psalm 30, 'Weeping may tarry for a night, but Joy comes with the morning.'''
Dave Brubeck lived to be 92 years of age, dying of heart failure on December 5, 2012.
As a musician, Dave Brubeck, understood rhythm, and the Psalms are rhythmic in the emotions they express.
The rhythm of Psalm 30 is encapsulated in the verse 5. There is weeping that lasts through a night of sorrow, but then joy comes with the morning. We are pushed down, but then we are raised up. We think all is lost, and then ...
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