As we were traveling home the other day, Mark and I sang along with the radio. I so enjoy singing but have always felt that my voice just wasn't cut out for letting anyone else hear me. As some people sing in the shower, I sing in the car.
When Mark and I are traveling together and a song comes on the radio, I instinctively begin to sing. Sometimes it dawns on me that maybe I am singing out of tune. I immediately lower my voice or stop singing all together.
That very thing happened on the way home the other day. As I lowered my voice, this thought rushed through my mind...."I will be so glad when I get to heaven because then I will be able to sing like an angel."
Just as quickly as that thought rushed in, the Lord so sweetly spoke to my heart. He said, "You already sound like an angel to me. I love to hear you sing. The angels sing to me because that is what I created them to do....but you...you sing to me because you love me and because you want to praise me. It is an act of worship and I really enjoy it when I hear your voice."
It brought tears to my eyes because in that instant, I was reminded that God is attentive to my every thought and that not only is He attentive to it, but took the time to speak to my heart in response to it.
Our God is an AWESOME GOD! He not only hears the cry of our heart, but also the Song of our Heart!
3 comments:
How beautiful! I am enjoying your writing- it is an encouragement to the whole Body of Christ, I know.
And what more could we want than to "prepare God's people for works of service, so that the Body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
So SING, SING, SING!
Remember Ephesians 5:19-21 too (speak to one another- out loud???with psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs ;)
Thanks for the encouragement today!!
This one is so good!
I've felt the same way for a long time. But then I remembered one of my friends saying "You would sound better than this band if you just put a little confidence in your voice."
Jesus loves us, and wants us to praise like little kids do. They do not care what they sound like.
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