February 17 – God Always Present

God Always Present,
in a music of worship,
one sound, with His Grace

In J.S. Bach’s Bible, next to the verse: 2 Chronicles 5:13 (KJV),

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;

Bach wrote this note in the margin: “In a music of worship, God is always present with his Grace.”