The story behind the typical or the story of the Fort Castle Hymn is our
God? Martin Luther, the great leader of the reformation, wrote the lyrics
and music of the famous Fort Castle Himno is our God? As one writer
has said, Luther was a musician from the cradle. As a child,
he had a splendid voice to sing. His favorite entertainment was to take his
lute every day after eating and walking away for half an hour to play and
sing. While he was studying at a school in the Franciscan monastery. Being
very young, he often used his magnificent voice to sing in front of the
windows of the rich, to obtain alms and to be able to give them
to the poor. Luther said, whoever doesn' t like music can never
be my friend. He said music was a gift and a grace from God.
He could drive satan away and make man forget all anger. His desire
was to compose hymns so that God' s message would be propagated through chanting.
He wanted all his compatriots to have hymns and read the Bible in their
own language. By reading the Bible or going in the voice of God and
singing hymns, they would come out with God. Before Martin Luther, music
was used only by the priests of the churches or select choirs in Latin,
but the great reformer introduced congregational anthemology to the world. The first Protestant hymnal
was published in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1, 500 twenty- four.
This little book had only eight hymns, four of them written by Martin Luther.
In no time. The demand for this little book was great. People
learned and sang hymns with great enthusiasm and Germany became a sea of songs.
In this reform, Martin Luther came to be accepted and known as the father
of congregational imnology. It is rare, at the same time that there is
an individual like Luther who wrote the music and lyrics of his inspired signs of
his thirty- seven hymns, the best known is Castle Strong is our God,
has a powerful message and everyone has sung it from that date until today.
While Luther lived, his enemies said that all Germany was accepting and learning
his doctrines. Through their hymns they accused the hymns of being the ones that
destroyed the soul more than even the books or sermons written by him. It
is believed that it was during the captivity at Burgo Bar Castle that Luther wrote
this beautiful hymn. His friends captured him and hid the fortress of Barburg from
him to protect him from his enemies. Although the Luther complained of being idle,
he read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek. He continued with the translation
of the psalms and composed a volume of sermons and a multitude of other writings
for almost a year. He exhorted, taught, rebuked and thundered from a
hiding place in the mountains. Perhaps he found a place of safety and help
in that castle, which inspired him to write and meditate on the security and
help that God was for him. In the words of this hymn, Luther
manifested the trust and support he found in his god. Here are the words,
according to the Spanish translation of the poet and ecclesiastic Juan Bautista Cabrera.
Man Martin Luther was inspired by Psalm forty- six to write the classic hymn
of Protestant reformation. Strong castle