| “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,” – Ephesians 5:19 |
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| A Spirit-filled believer is Singing! Do you love to sing? I love to sing but no one around me loves to hear the sound of my singing. I have been asked to sing many SOLOS – so low no one can hear me. At Easter I was asked to sing ON A HILL FAR AWAY. When it comes to singing, we read that God sings over us. Zephaniah 3:17 says, “The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness….He will rejoice over you with singing.” We know that God loves to hear singing and that heaven is filled with singing. We read of singing in Revelations 5 and 14. Revelation 15:3 says, “They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!” Every now and then there comes the question of what will we be doing in heaven. Well, we will be singing a lot! But before we get to heaven we are instructed to SING here on earth. We are to sing with others. We are to sing to others. We are to sing in our hearts. (I hear that part of the verse quoted to me a lot!) We are to sing Psalms. We are to sing hymns. We are to sing spiritual songs, known today as praise and worship. If I may give an opinion on songs to sing, I have found it helpful to sing songs ABOUT the Lord and songs TO the Lord. As you consider putting into action Ephesians 5:19 make the commitment that you are going to sing. Sing in the shower. Sing alone in your car. Sing in your heart. And if you can sing and not hurt other people’s ears (like me) sing in public. Lift up your voice to the Lord. As you consider putting into action Ephesians 5:19 I encourage you to have a hymnal to use for your quiet time and as well use your computer to listen to and sing praise and worship songs. Have a diet of songs that allows you to sing ABOUT God and to sing TO God! I do believe that when a person gets saved God puts in their heart a new song. (Psalm 40:3 says, “He has put a new song in my mouth — Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD.”) And I connect Ephesians 5:18 to Ephesians 5:19. When you are filled with the Spirit you will be singing songs about God and to God! Verse to DATE the Word on May 19 (5/19) is Ephesians 5:19. It says, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,” Continue Strong SINGING to the Lord, And remember to DATE the Word |