๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, ๐ฎ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ. ๐ฃ๐๐ฎ๐น๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฌ:๐ฏ
Songs are expressions of the heart’s affections. For when the core of our beings well up with overflowing feelings, it gushes out like a spring, spewing out its content.
Every song is like a prayer, either pleading, lamenting, regretting, rejoicing, wanting, giving, worshipping or praising! Because a song voices our thoughts, what we meditate upon will surely come out of us.
When we think about God’s love, what does this evoke in us?
He lavishly demonstrated Himself and His very nature in the cross of Christ. Imagine Jesus while on earth, going about doing only good, defending the weak, healing the sick, comforting the lonely even when he himself had no roof on His head. Even when he himself was tired and weary, he kept pace! Even when men insulted him, when even his family did not believe in Him, even when close friends betrayed him, he stayed his course. At the garden of agony, Jesus wept blood like tears because of the pain He was to endure for you and me. When everyone deserted Him and even The Father too in deep pain, had to look away because Jesus was then made sin for us, The Godhead kept their gaze on us and the Son drew His strength on the thought that soon we’d all be made free at last!
Moses knew this God of love and sang, “The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. – Ex 15:2
David likewise sang, The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. – Ps 118:14
The book of Revelations states: They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, โGreat and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. – Rev 15:3
๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ ๐จ๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ. His love is the root from which this new song comes resonating forth. What a joyful and victorious anthem we are privileged to sing daily even so as we prepare also to sing it with even greater significance on that heavenly reunion, one day soon!
๐ค๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ผ๐ป:
1. How about you, what song resonates in your heart? 2. Do you find the anthem of the cross ringing in your heart continually and how is it affecting the way you live?
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ :
Blessed Father, Son and Holy Spirit how truly amazing is your great grace. You who live in pure and Holy light have made a way for me. You have touched me with the radiance of your love. My heart is lifted in Praise to you. For to you, I owe my life, my everything! The song of your great redemption now remains in my heart. I pray I would always keep the emblem of the cross before me so I could ever be guided by its significance; and that I may purposely live for you all my days even as I also await that glorious dawn, when I shall get to sing this song together with all your people, to magnify your name as one. Amen