one4nine - the return

Monday, September 11, 2006

Selah

As a child when we are leaning to read we often skip the word we are struggling with well I did.

I think the truth is we as adult still do it, weather it be word's or emotions, we just ignore or regard them as irrelevent.

There is a word in Psalms which many people skip overf as they don't understand it or know what it means, Irronically this word, "Selah" means to Stop, well in the context in which it is written. As you may know the book Psalms is infact a songbook.

Selah is there as an instraction to the musicians and singers to stop playing, and or to play instramentally, it was designed as a natrual paurse in worship to refect on the words that had just been sung or God. I hink that as people we often avoid Selah as it is very hard, and I'm not just taliking about in worship in our lifes in general.

I firmly believe that in our busy life and thus in worship it is more often than not a whistle stop tour of everything.

I believe we should bring selah back.

On that note i also believe I'm very much at a time of Selah in my life, a place where i need to stop and refect on thing gone and things tat maybe yet to come, this also gives me a chance to wait on God for the next move..... who know to where and what.

Hohum