Welcome
back to Tuesday, the best day of the week! This is Tuesday's Musical
Notes coming at'cha with some hot platters and hip to the jive
elucidation that will cause you to soar as we explore.
(Interpretation: Welcome to Tuesday and the blog, Tuesday's Musical
Notes. We have music and thought provoking conversation that is
intellectually stimulating and spiritually engaging.) This is the place
that everybody wants to be...at the corner of Bb Major and The Psalms,
where we not only shuffle on down with the slickest tunes in the land,
but we do it with our hands in the hands of the Man....Welcome to
Tuesday's Musical Notes!!! Set your time machine back to 1975, when
long hair and smooth groves were in and the lines of country and rock
were blurred, we take you to the crossover hit of the year by the most
popular artist of the 70's, Ms. Linda Ronstadt...sing it girl!
In
the summer of 1960, 2 brothers recorded a song that would go as high as
#8 on the charts. The Everly Brothers recorded "When Will I Be Loved",
written by Phil Everly, on Cadence Records. It became a hit the summer
they signed with a different label, Warner Brothers, from which many of
their most popular hits ("Cathy's Clown" (#1), 1960, "That's Old
Fashioned" (#9), 1962, among others) came. But it would be the 1975 hit
by Linda Ronstadt that would take "When Will I Be Loved" to #2 and
iconic status.
Her
voice has been heard on over 120 albums (not all hers...). She has
sold over 100 million records, making her one of the world's best
selling recording artists. Stylistically, her music knows no genre
boundaries. The musicians that would eventually form their own band
and become the Eagles were her backup band at one time. She has
collaborated with some of the biggest names in music history. All of
this combines to make Linda Ronstadt, one of the biggest acts in music.
She has won or been nominated for countless awards in music, television
and the theater. With an impressive 38 appearances on Billboard's Hot
100 (21 top 40 singles, 10 top 10singles, three #2 singles and the #1
smash hit "You're No Good"), Linda Ronstadt retired in 2011 and was
diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in December of 2012. April 2014 saw
her inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
One
would think that with throngs of adoring fans of all shapes, sizes and
colors that an artist like Linda Ronstadt, would feel loved. However,
in a 1976 interview with Rolling Stone, Ronstadt said: "they haven't invented a word for that loneliness that everybody goes
through on the road. The world is tearing by you, real fast, and all
these people are looking at you. ..." That
loneliness is not just a trait of those who tour in a musical act all
the time. It is something that is felt by every person in their lives.
It comes as a realization that there has to be more than the existence
we see during our lifetimes. In most folks, this awareness of something
missing is a cause for pause in their busy life. The feel cheated,
they fell mistreated. During this pause, one might expect the
question...."When will I be loved..."
For
dedicated readers of Tuesday's Musical Notes, you recognize that this
is the portion of the blog that we go to the Scripture to bring in a
spiritual application to the feature song of the day. If you're just
tuning it, please understand that the Scripture to which we refer is the
foundation for ANY discussion of love, and the greatest book every
written on any subject, especially love,...The BIBLE. Millions of folks
around the world are skeptical of the truths found in the Bible.
Tuesday's Musical Notes affirms the inerrancy and authority of the
Bible. It is the context by which we write, and will always be where we
turn to explain how there is a cure for the loneliness that so many
feel. It is also the topic of a fantastic book titled, God Breathed, by Josh McDowell. And so with this in mind, we turn to the Bible to answer the question,
"When Will I Be Loved?"
In
the New King James Version of the Bible, the world "love" is used 500
times. This treatment would indicate a certain amount of importance to
the idea of love. People all over the world know the passage, John 3:16
from the Bible. "For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Followers
of Jesus hold this passage in great regard, for it defines the kind of
love that so many are craving to cure the loneliness that only love can
provide. But as precious as John 3:16 is, stopping at the end of verse
16 denies the reader a detailing the "why" behind the love that would
cause God to sacrifice His Son. Take a moment and read this passage in
complete context. John 3:16-20 New King James Version of the Bible/The Message paraphrase parallel. The
remainder of the passage goes into detail about the hopelessness that
everyone in the world experiences prior to acknowledging what Jesus can
do in their lives, if they accept the freedom and love that His
sacrifice provides.
Can
we be honest and admit that we've all been cheated, mistreated, put
down, pushed 'round, made blue and lied to. Maybe we have even been on
the committing end of these loveless actions. Regardless, there is a
way to be loved. The Gospel Of John - English Standard Version of the Bible/The Message parallel, as well as The Gospel of Matthew - ESV/The Message, The Gospel of Mark - ESV/The Message and The Gospel of Luke - ESV/The Message
detail the life of the One who came to show us how loved we are. His
name is Jesus. Since the foundation of the world, you have been loved,
because God in His wisdom, provided a Way for our disobedience to be
obliterated and our relationship with Him to be restored. That Way, is
Jesus.
So, "When Will I Be Loved?"...friend there has never been a time when you weren't....
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well. - Psalm 139:13-14 ESV
"Made To Love" from the 2007 album Portable Sounds by Toby Mac
"Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving you,
Randy
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