This time of year can be especially stressful, taking a gospel music break may be exactly what you need to give you the strength and encouragement to move forward.
Gospel music helps you maintain balance, delivering the perfect message when you need it. Instead of having thoughts of hopelessness, it focuses our attention of the higher power of the Lord.
“So many of the spirituals are written in what has been performed as and what scholars call the ‘eternal now,’” said Robert F. Darden, professor of journalism and founder of Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, according to News Wise.
“If you read the lyrics as they were transcribed, many of them are in the present tense.”
When you hear the Christmas spirituals, you’re hearing people who believe this is a real live event,” Darden said. “Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born, not was born. That gives them more of an immediacy and a power than songs that are in the past tense.”
“The spirituals reflect a people who believe they’re in the middle of the Bible story. I think that gives them a power that’s hard for others to match and why the Gospel artists, who would later record these songs, tried to capture that and keep that immediacy and intimacy that I think a lot of Christmas carols don’t have,” Darden said.
If your soul feels empty or you feel like your life is missing something, gospel music has the ability to make you feel whole. This genre of music is known to lift the spirit and fill the soul.
Ephesians 4:22-24 …”put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
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