Underneath are the everlasting arms!
Without a view of this there is such agony.
Part of the African American tradition of music gives , what I think is musical expression to the everlasting nature of the arms of the Lord!
We lean on those everlasting arms. It is comforting and comfortable. In the dark of trial it is a winsome place to be, but if we presume upon the everlasting arm of the tradition and not the God of the tradition, God will shake us loose from our own trust in the arm of man.
If we refuse to share the weapon of the spirit speaking and singing to one another in songs and hymns and spiritual songs because that is not their “tradition”. We are hoarding priceless treasures of the Lord that were meant for the sharing with the Church universal.
None of these traditions are powerful without God’s Holy Spirit and power. God’s word is power. Life and spirit.
His Arms are above our traditions and there apart from our traditions, but I do love the expression of the everlasting Arms in the music of the African American Church!
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