🙏Weekly Devotion May 5th, 2026

Fjeldberg – Devotion for  May 5th, 2026

READ (Psalm 150:6)

"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!"

REFLECT 

I have been blessed with the God given ability to play the organ. This ability has offered me great joy since I was a young boy! I’ve been able to play a variety of instruments over the years, both electronic (no pipes) and pipe. I’ve been privileged to play pipe organs in the last three churches where I’ve served. Fjeldberg is one of them! In my opinion, Ruth Lee made a very wise decision many years ago when she promoted the installation of the Reuter pipe organ we have today! 

I am able to play the organ, but I admit I don’t understand the complex mechanisms that make the instrument work! That’s why I rely on pipe organ “specialists”, like Hoskins Pipe Organ Company, whose expertise and experience we use to tune and maintain our instrument. The pipe organ is considered the largest and most complex acoustic musical instruments, often acting as a “one-person orchestra”. It combines metal and wood pipes, intricate air-pressure mechanisms, multiple keyboards, with some instruments boasting over 33,000 pipes and weighing hundreds of tons. The pipe organ is more than a musical instrument; it is a "breathing" liturgical tool, acting as a profound metaphor for the Holy Spirit and the Church's unity. It brings together thousands of pipes, creating a "Theology of Musical Thunder". A pipe organ cannot produce sound on its own. It sits silent and empty, a mere skeleton of wood and metal, until the blower sends wind into its reservoirs. Only then, by the "breath" of air, do the pipes produce music, transforming a dead object into a roaring voice of praise.

As Christians, we are like those pipes. Separated from the Holy Spirit, we are silent. But when we allow the "wind" of God to fill us, we are empowered to make music to the Lord, singing in unison. 

The pipe organ consists of individual pipes, ranging from tiny to massive, all working together to create a single, unified sound. This is a picture of the Church itself—individual members, or "stops," with different gifts and voices that, when played by the master hand of God, find harmony and purpose.   

PRAY   

Heavenly Father, as the organist pulls the stops and the pipes burst into praise, fill our lives with Your Holy Spirit. As this instrument takes raw materials and makes them sing, work through our lives to produce praise that brings comfort and joy to the world. We pray that we, with all your creation, may serve as an instrument of your love. Amen. 

Devotions by Paul V R