Hooray!!! It's October!!! AND it's Tuesday!!! Time for everyone's (well at least everyone that reads it) favorite blog, Tuesday's Musical Notes! (If you have anything to make a fanfare, now would be the time to utilize it!) Thanks for joining us today on another exciting adventure as we learn about a favorite song and how that song can be utilized to explain a life-changing concept!
We promise to always uphold the highest of standards as we navigate Notesland together. We promise that each week you will be given a song that you like (we hope so anyway). We promise you'll be given insight that will challenge and encourage you. We promise to get started right now...
The first single from Backless, Eric Clapton's sixth studio album, hit the top ten of the charts in the fall of 1978. "Promises" peaked at #9 on Billboard's Hot 100, came in at #6 on the Adult Contemporary chart and went as high as #82 on the Top Country Singles chart. It has the distinction of appearing on over 15 albums and continues to receive airplay at radio all around the world.
Most folks who listen to popular music know the name of guitar aficionado Eric Clapton. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (solo artist, Yardbirds, Cream). His 1992 Unplugged album has sold over ten million copies in the United States alone. The 74-year-old has sold 100 million records worldwide and continues to write and record original material. His last 2 studio albums, I Still Do, and Merry Xmas were chart successes in their respective genre. He will go down as one of the most successful musicians of all times leaving a lasting legacy of lyrics and licks.
"Promises" is somewhat of a conundrum. While its title would cause one to believe the song would be about commitment, it is the total opposite with its refrains of "I don't care if you never come home, I don't mind if you just keep on rowin' away on a distant sea, 'cause I don't love you and you don't love me..." There is however a reference to a promise. "We made a vow, that we'd always be friends, how could we know that promises end..." It is a song that speaks to the value in making vows and promises to those we love and trust then turns it around to the harsh feelings that occur when a promise is broken.
So are promises supposed to have an expiration date?
Did you know that the Bible includes 3573 promises? These commitments vary from being between God to man, man to man and man to God. There is a variety of topics the promises contain. From the very first promise that God makes to the enemy, "I will put enmity (alienation) between you and the woman..." to the very last, "Surely, I am coming quickly..." promises in the Bible are held in high regard and rarely have and termination date.
In Genesis 15, we see one of God's most powerful promises made to the man Abraham. God guarantees Abraham that a son will be born to him and Sarah, even in their old age. God goes on to promise that Abraham's descendants would be as numerous as the stars. Genesis 15 New American Standard Bible/The Message paraphrase of the Bible/King James Version of the Bible parallel In verse 6, we see that Abraham believed the promise that God made to him. Because of his belief, the Bible said that Abraham was made "righteous" or "set right with God". The modern vernacular for this would be to say that because of Abraham's belief in God's promise, he (Abraham) was saved. Since Noah, there had been no other given such a label by God. Hebrews 11 NASB/The Message/KJV
In the Church, we see the manifestation of God's promise to Abraham. As the Bible relays the genealogy of Jesus, it points it all back through Abraham to Adam. (The Gospel of Jesus according to the disciple Matthew, chapter 1, verses 1-17 NASB/The Message/KJV) As we believe that Jesus was all that He said He was and did all the Bible says He did and WILL do, we become righteous through Jesus' sacrifice and adopted not only into God's family, but Abraham becomes a partriarch of our family as well.
In the Bible, we see time and again God's promises fulfilled and kept. We can rely on what is said by God through His Word. We can take great confidence and make important decisions in our life based on what His Word says and how Holy Spirit guides us.
The enemy will attempt to confuse how those commitments are fulfilled, but despite his best efforts and his use of every tool in this world, he cannot break or dillute a promise that God has made.
In other words,
"We've got a problem, all can relate, we've got a world, callin' love, hate. God made a vow, that He'd always be there, and we should know His promise won't end. La la la la la la la...."
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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