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A Welcome… and a proper clarification.

Whoever is going to visit this site is probably a Christian. If you have not given your life to Christ, I warmly invite you to consider the love of God, who sent Jesus to offer His innocent life on the cross in order to save us from our wickedness.

The one that wrote these few lines has experienced it for himself (see biography) and he speaks with the joy of having received forgiveness from God. Whoever you are, Jesus loves you… Welcome!

The Savour of His Knowledge (April 1995)

You have firmly squeezed your future
in the palm of your hand...
to drip its juice, and to taste instant pleasure!...

But the splinters of your dreams
have hurt your hand.
There is no peace today,
if you don't turn back and stop,
as an exhausted pilgrim,
on that naked hill where, without guilt, Christ has died…

He has offered His life as a fruit to taste,
and He has poured out His blood on your pain.

You can turn your fearful eyes
to the horror of the cross,
but you can smell the fragrance of His love
The savour of His knowledge,
the fragrance of your thankfulness.

As the mist is cleared before your weeping face;
Look and see the palm of your hand is healed!
He has saved you by His wounds,
and only now you understand
why the nails tortured him...
Jesus has firmly gripped your future in His palm,
so much so that he has moulded you in His hand.

He has offered His life as a fruit to taste,
you can smell the fragrance of His love:
The savour of His knowledge,
the fragrance of your thankfulness,
The savour of His knowledge.

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. (Isaiah 38:20)

I don't consider myself a "musician", I only strum the guitar. Between prayer and music, I give top priority to prayer, one hundred to one. But indeed for this reason, I think I'm able to offer a balanced point of view on the matter of "music".

In both good ways and evil ways, music has power. This is attested to by the Bible (for instance, look at the harp of David that calmed the tormented spirit of Saul in I Samuel 16:23, or the prophecy of Elisha with musical accompaniment of II Kings 3:15). It is a strength that we cannot ignore. As were all things created by God and in the sight of God (music was created first to praise Him, Job 38:7, and it will be present in eternity - see Revelations 15:2,3), making music is good but abusing music is bad - and today in the world we see the abuse or "diverted use" of music (don't they speak about rock "idols"?).

When we speak of Christian music, we refer to poetic texts with biblical truth. Christian music is doctrinally correct. We sing praises to God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), with the purpose of worship and to edify or to express the joy of a living faith, accompanied by an edifying musical performance. When we talk about the word "edifying", I know that we can discuss a lot. Let me explain what it means to me. Music that edifies lifts up my soul, it brings me close to the Lord, it makes me grow and leaves with me a pleasant emotion that is not temporal but something lasting, like when I listen attentively to a good sermon or a fervent prayer.

Christian songs presuppose a Christian message, the same that we evangelical Christians preach and live.As the message of the Gospel is radical, so the music and the voice that sings the message has to be - as Keith Green sang - "without compromises".

Break me (July 1996)

Break me, Lord, break my heart
So that my whole being may speak of love.

Break my pride, my conceitedness
Those things that trap me in rebellion.

Break my indulgence concerning sin
plunge me, Lord, in Your shed blood.

Break me, Lord, if I am a deformed vase
as you know me better than I, mould me again.

Break my indolence, that ancient chain that keeps me from feeling the pain of the world's troubles.

Break me, Lord, as you have done with the bread
and distribute myself to those who are hungry.

Break me, Lord, break my heart.
Break me, I pray, use me for Your glory

Lord, break my heart.

From 1978 till the present I have composed around 140
Christians songs (words and music), some of which were written for children, and some are translations of hymns from English.

You will find some of my repertiore in this site: if you don't like it, that's ok, it doesn't matter, and if you like it, all the glory goes to the Lord.
Dear visitor… God bless you!

Alberto Mungai
ilprofumo@gmail.com