Apparently there are complaints and rumblings among the musical elite that the ‘Proms’, the annual eight weeks of great music which begins later this month has lost its serious edge.
Their concern is that with the addition a few years ago of the ‘Proms in the park’ the ‘film music proms’ and especially the ‘Sing along proms’ that the slippery slope had began.
A Dr Who prom introduced last year brought the proms to a whole new audience and this year will , no doubt, be the same with a Pet shop boys prom and a CBees Prom make an appearance for the first time Such changes are seen by some as a move too far from the original intentions of the founder Sir Henry Wood and yet have brought the proms to a whole new audience.
Any sort of change to our lives can often bring the same response. Could it be that the status quo can become our comfort zone and that any sort of change is seen as a step into the unknown?
Often that’s the reason so many resist faith and pass by the joyous experience of a living relationship with God; and yet the Bible tells us that such a step of faith can be our making. Moses fled from Egypt a guilty man, only to find himself on the Holy ground of the burning bush.
David broke God’s law and fled in shame and fear only to realise the amazing truth that God was seeking to restore and forgive him. The Apostle Paul threatened the early church with cruel persecution only to meet with God’s shining light of challenge and forgiveness.
In every case a relinquishment to God’s will meant a real change of heart and a newness of life that was never thought possible. It’s the same for us. Jesus invites us to know a real change that will bring us close to him and to each other. Perhaps we need to take seriously the way of living.
He offers – to love God with all of our heart, soul and mind and love our neighbour as we love ourselves and to know the life changing assurance that we are truly the children of God, redeemed by the saving power of God’s love. ‘I once was lost but now am found was blind but now I see’ – Indeed Amazing grace!
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