Hola! Bienvenidos a las notas musicales del martes!!! Hi there! Welcome to Tuesday's Musical Notes!!! It's that time of the week where families gather together around their computer monitor and enjoy a few moments of encouragement, entertainment, and enlightenment as they bond over a song and a sentiment. Today Tuesday's Musical Notes is proudly sponsored by our friends at Genesis (you pick it, the band, the car (I didn't know that this was Hyundai's luxury car line!) or the old school Sega gaming system). And now on with our show...
Last week, when we left our hero, he had one burning question on his mind as he laid injured from a letter opener wound from an unknown assailant. In his delirium, he wondered. How far is...
Peaking at #16 on Billboard's Hot 100, and #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart is quite the way to begin a recording career. "Heaven" is the debut release by the band Los Lonely Boys from San Angelo, Texas. Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza follow in the footsteps of their father, conjunto musician and Falcone's member Ringo Garza Sr. with their unique blend of rock-n-roll, brown-eyed soul, Texas blues, country and Tejano music that they call Texican Rock n' Roll.
Their eponymous debut album from 2004 catapulted Los Lonely Boys into instant musical stardom as the band saw 2 Grammy nominations (winning 2005's Best Pop Performance by a Duo Group, losing Best New Artist to Maroon 5) and saw today's feature song finish as the 37th best song of 2004.
Los Lonely Boys can be seen in their native San Angelo where they continue to tour and record on the independent label, Playing in Traffic records. They continue to be popular in the region but have yet to repeat the success they saw when they asked what many folks ponder...how far is heaven?
As you read the story of the beginning of what we perceive as the reality of our world in Genesis 1 of the Bible, one must remember a couple of things to keep it all in context. Biblical scholars suggest God transcribed Genesis to Moses. Based on what we read of Moses it isn't too far of an assumption to make that he was educated in a manner ascribed to Egyptian royalty. He then was educated in a manner ascribed to Midianite shepherds. This would have allowed Moses the ability to understand a wide variety of concepts as God dictated them to him.
One of those concepts was everything was created by God in a specific order. Something had to come from something. What I mean by this is that there had to be material of some sort for God to work with, given this fact, the earth existed. (Genesis 1:2 - "And the earth was without form, and void;" - King James Version of the Bible) For that material to be used, God created a chemical process in the form of a stimulant that would repeat every day. (Genesis 1:3 - "
God spoke: “Light!
And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, He named the dark Night." It was evening, it was morning—Day One." - The Message paraphrase of the Bible).
Now that God had a stimulated environment it was time to create an atmosphere capable of sustaining life of all kinds; plants, animals, and humans. (Genesis 1:6-8 " God spoke: “Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!” God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: He named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning—Day Two" - The Message)
Did you catch that? He named sky, the heavens. (Note the plural) So does that mean Heaven is the space between God and the atmosphere we breathe and our birds fly in? The answer is sure! Absolutely! Without a doubt!
Let's put some perspective however, on the "Heaven" in which Los Lonely Boys query. Without over theologizing, and in the best Randyterpretation we can muster, perhaps there are multiple levels of what we understand, thus the plural form for God creating the heavens.
The apostle Paul gave us a perspective on this in 2 Corinthians 12 when he tells of a man who he had known 14 years ago with a very unique experience. 2 Corinthians 12:2 NASB/The Message/KJV In this passage Paul, speaks of "third heaven". Using first-century logic, Paul is referring to the "Heaven" in which God resides, Jesus sits at His right hand, angels exist glorifying God, and faithful saints who have believed have gone after they died. That would cause one to at least consider, that the 2nd heaven is perhaps the area we understand to be our solar system and the universe. The first heaven then would be the atmosphere we breathe and where birds and insects fly. All of these would have been created when God seperated the expanse.
I confess to you friend, that I hadn't considered this. I suppose that makes me a simpleton...I can live with that. But if you are a simpleton too and had never considered the creation of Heavens. Maybe this makes more sense than it did before.
As far as the Los Lonely Boys question? I think it a more important question is: who goes to heaven?
This past Sunday many around the world celebrated what we know of as Easter. Some celebrated with signs of the season that are lots of fun. Incredible memories are made with colorful clothing, children searching for treasures, and family time. All of these things are good things.
But even more important than all of the good things that were experienced on Easter, is the most important, life-altering, question-answering thing. Does what you believe ensure your entrance into the Heaven where God is?
To answer this question, a few more inquiries must be made. Do you believe that there is a tomb that exists in Israel that is empty? Do you believe that this empty tomb represents a full life guaranteed by Jesus as we live in this earth as well as in Heaven? The Gospel of Jesus according to the disciple John, chapter 10, verses 1-10 NASB/The Message/KJV
Dear friend, how far is heaven for you? You exist in the heaven in which the birds fly. You have possibly seen images from the Hubble telescope or video of astronauts taking a space walk in the heaven that we know of as outer space. But for you, how far is the Heaven? For those who believe Jesus was Who He said He was, did what He said He did, and is preparing Heaven for everyone who believes, Heaven isn't as far as it seems. Oh can you tell me...
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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