I originally wrote about this in 2018, and recently ran across it and decided to share again because it is so relevant to what God is doing and calling for in this hour:
“A great song is more than words and music. It's like a thumb pressing against the pulse of living that relates a simple truth about a very complicated process.
When songwriters do their job properly, they open up the world of emotion, process, truth, pain, power, love, etc. They make complicated things easier to understand, easier to participate in. They open up possibility for hopeless hearts. They open up the truth and power of love for a hungry world. They deliver understanding and justice to the chaos of the world.
The world needs songwriters to rise up and shift culture and atmosphere, to bring revolution and revelation. The songs of the nations shape those nations.
Andrew Fletcher, a Scottish politician and writer, said, “Give me the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” He understood the power of music to shape and shift culture.
Songwriters, the nations need you. They need prophetic songs that are sung once and sent to accomplish their work, songs that are recorded for the ages and continue to be sung, songs with words and songs too deep for words. Write and watch the world change.”
©Elisabeth Cooper 2019