We often hum away classic songs like "Wade in the Water" or "Swing Low,Sweet Chariots", and care less about the inspirations and mood of their composers.
Some people call these songs "feel-good choruses" or non-challantly brand them as "sentimental odes". Everyone's got an opinion! Yet these are songs which have creased the sands of history and are still impactful today.
If we've never passed through real "fire" or descended unto depths like the Chilean miners(they were fortunate the whole world was watching and ready to send in rescue.) had to endure; one could never comprehend the faceless-pain and abject hopelessness slaves had to bear! Yet in the midst of all their sorrows,the food for man's soul(i.e.music),was always on their lips to ease their pain through the darkest of hours and nights.
It is remarkable to note how "sorrow, according to Scriptures, is better than Laughter!"
Despite their squalid conditions,these Fathers,mothers,children,and whole families though subjected to heinous conditions as slaves in blinding-sorrows, were still able to bear out their minds unto God devotedly -and never with sarcasm.
Imagine seeing your young children being sold-off before your very eyes without any chance of reconnection[that's a life imprisonment sentence]!
They would always offer deeply inspiring Spiritual songs of hope and trust in God's Salvation. Such songs were always infused with the sweat of their pains -though their reservoir of faith had dried up -yet they would reach deeper into the core of their souls connecting with the Sovereign God and amazingly resurge back to live from the dead to die another day!
Follow Wintley Phipps in this emotional yet symphonic celebration of what made these believers thick even in their darkest hours.
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This Spirituals would remind every believer of the futility of religion and dogmas,in relation to having a working relationship/encounter with the Lord, as crucial. Remember the Psalmist David, He too passed through lots but connected with the Lord through his deep prose writings!
What if we were told the true story behind one of our favorite spiritual anthems "Swing low,Sweet Chariots" was actually composed by an escaped slave. It is a parody and cry of deliverance enroute the land of Freedom (often the Free Northern States,which the underground railroad aimed to get slaves to liberty)
These Spirituals poignantly explains the true meaning of what Jesus said,"He who the Son of Man has set free, is Free indeed". Though these believers were in "physical chains or doomed for life" yet their souls was always at liberty to express themselves to their Maker. Small wonder why they "waded in the water
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