A Brief Musical Interlude...

As found in various Psalms...

Selah

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Instrumental

"Little Wing" from "The Sky Is Crying" by Stevie Ray Vaughn

It's a word that appears dozens of times in the Psalms, but nobody bothers to talk much about it. Selah. A loose translation would be "interlude."

The Psalms were songs, they were the hymns of the day and many churches today use them as their only worship songs. There is nothing wrong with this, a service of psalter is wonderful and glorious. But what do we do with Selah?

Selah was the time in the canting of the psalm in worship when the harp, lute, pipe or other instrument would play and the cantor would take a rest. If you want, selah was the ancient Hebrew guitar solo.

People of the Book often get tied up in the words of worship. Sometimes it is just as important to get tied up in the music. Selah, the musical interlude of worship. This is when we just listen, we don't try to interpret the words. This is the time when we listen for the word of God.

In prayer often we try to say it all so that God will know what we feel and want. But we also need to listen to the music between the words. Often we will find this is where God is talking to us.