Sitting among rubble, the roof of his home a victim to one of the dozens of tornados that violently whipped through Kentucky, Jordan Baize played praise music into the somber air.
The piano was among the few pieces of furniture untouched by the destruction left in the wake of the storm that claimed at least 74 lives. Unbeknownst to his sister, Whitney Brown, Baize sat down at the black grand piano and began playing “There’s Something About That Name,” a Southern Gospel praise song written by Bill and Gloria Gaither, WFIE-TV reported.
Brown was in the bedroom, packing up a few things when she heard her brother playing.
She caught Baize’s worship on camera and posted it to Facebook.
“I have been overwhelmed by the love my family has been shown today,” Brown wrote in a Facebook post with the video. “My brother, Jordan, lost his home, but thankfully, he and his family made it out safely. I was standing in his bedroom packing anything I could salvage and I heard the most beautiful sound: music.”
“Jordan was sitting at his grand piano, playing the Gaither tune ‘There’s Something About the Name,’” she continued. “Everything around him was broken. The piano had water damage, it had missing keys, and he didn’t know I was filming, but still he used his gift to glorify his God the best way he knew how.”
“Enjoy his God-given gift,” she concluded.
Bremen, Kentucky, is a tiny town with a population of around 300 people. Of the roughly 74 who have died in the Blue Grass State, 12 were from Bremen.
HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?
In an interview with ABC News, Jordan Baize explained that it is “his faith” that guides him and encouraged those struggling to look to the Lord.
“At the risk of being too preachy, I would say that for me, my faith guides me through the good days and the bad days. I would hate to know that I’d have to face this storm or any other forthcoming, without being able to walk through it with Christ. He is the anchor of our lives and our family,” he told those watching. “I would encourage anyone that doesn’t have that kind of relationship to try to find. I know life is much sweeter when that is in place.”
Even in the darkest times, God uses and strengthens Believers to serve as an example to those around them; that people who don’t know the Lord might see and wonder why Christians are filled with such hope, joy, and peace in the midst of trials.
God may even allow those trials to fall on followers of Jesus for the purpose of being salt and light to those facing similar circumstances. In Matthew 5, Jesus exhorts His followers to “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team assistant director, Josh Holland, spoke about how their ministry has dispatched “crisis-trained chaplains” to the areas hardest hit by the recent tornados, to “listen and pray with people, and let them know that God is with them and loves them, even during this difficult time.”
In Romans chapter 8 we read that there is no circumstance or trial that can separate us from the love God has for us:
Romans 8:35, 37-39 KJV – “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?… Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
