Our church (Methodist Church) is the chief organiser of the annual Dundee Music Festival, and local school choirs are our main attraction at the Festival.
I am always amazed that a choir which consists of so many different individual voices (sometimes up to 75), can combine to produce such beautiful and melodious sounds. Every successful choir depends on one vital ingredient: the choir conductor. The conductor disciplines the choir on which notes to sing and when to sing them.
It would be disastrous if the choir tried to get rid of the conductor – they would not know when to come in or at what speed to sing.
Given the state of our current human history amid the attack of the coronavirus, it may seem that on the world stage the nations of the globe are singing without a conductor, but the story of the Bible is that God is the conductor who created this world and he gives us instructions about how we should live, and at what score he wants us to play.
Let’s read a short passage from Romans 6: 8-10: “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.”
The great story of Easter as recorded in the Gospels, is that a loving and merciful God sent his one and only son to die for the salvation of the world; for once for all – and that those who willingly accept God’s free gift of salvation in Jesus also receive access to God’s justice and peace. When we look at the world today, it is evident that true justice and peace are unattainable. These are issues that we have been struggling with even before coronavirus.
It is hardly surprising that there is no harmony in the world. It seems like we have ignored the conductor and are all playing our own notes in our own timing and in our own tunes. The result is global dissonance. We desperately need a conductor if we are to hit the high notes again.
Watch the Easter message from Rev Pillay below:
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