Why did God create music – 2

Yesterday, I asked that question: Why did God create music? I linked to the video of Paul singing the Resurrection Chant that had filled his heart and mouth at church on Easter morning. Many were blessed and moved by his praise.

Today, his father writes of even deeper, broader blessing that God gives through Paul and others we might think of as disabled:

My boy is not a baby or an infant – he’s almost 15 years old.  But he has been graced with both innocence and confidence.  When he sings, he sings without fear or any thought to what other people may think.  He sings at school and he sings on the bus and he sings in stores and he sings at home.  He proclaims, frequently, who God is.

Can you imagine what that does to the evil one when my boy, and all the other girls and boys like Paul, sing?  How many unclean spirits have our children with significant cognitive disabilities silenced by their innocent praises?  How often have we been spiritually protected through those in our care?  How frequently has God smiled at the God-centeredness of those the world considers expendable?

He has been brought into that reality by pondering Psalm 8:2:

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

I hope you’ll read all Paul’s father had to say about the power his son has from God.

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