To sprinkle special on our ordinary days, we add music. The laundry never ends, the family activities never cease, dust dominates, and dishes fill my kitchen sink, even when I’ve just cleared it out. But the reality is I can’t because I am a distracted worshiper. I want to love Him with all of my heart, soul, and mind. I want to love Him perfectly, but I’m just not able to. I will be the first to admit that my feeble attempts to live out the greatest commandment fall short every single day. What better way for us to express love to God than by living out a life that sings His praise and features Him as the ultimate object of our desire? Both the Old and New Testaments tell us that the most vital calling in life-your greatest purpose-is to “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38). The greatest commandment of God to His people is not vague. How could they not respond in grateful worship? How could He not be their Song? God had freed His people through a medley of miracle after miracle. Moses had to sing because his heart couldn’t contain the gratitude and awe he felt for God. The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. First seen in Exodus 15:2, My Song is a name that Moses used to describe God as he celebrated the miraculous deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt.Ĭan you imagine how his heart swelled as he watched God turn a massive body of water into a walking trail for millions of Israelites? Moses and his people threw down a big ol’ God-party on the victory side of the Red Sea! Notes and words strung together in excellence can raise us to our feet or push us to our knees.īecause music touches something at the core of our being, it should come as no surprise that one of the names of God found in Scripture is My Song. Or “What a Wonderful World” sung by Louis Armstrong “How Great Is Our God” sung by Chris Tomlin “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion “Because He Lives” sung by Gloria and Bill Gaither “Shout to the Lord” sung by Darlene Zschech It heightens emotions and allows us to feel our way through a thought.
#WAYNE WATSON SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD TONIGHT FULL#
I could never hope to understand the full scope of the answer, but I know this: music is powerful. When His deep calls out to my deep, I just have to chase it musically! I can scarcely pick up my Bible and spend time in God’s presence without having to run to the piano in responsive worship. In many ways my life is processed through melody and verse. If my iTunes library were in book form, it would fill the Library of Congress. I love writing songs, singing songs, learning songs, and playing songs. The irony, of course, is that I, too, love to sing-just not all day every day like my daughter, and certainly not when I’m writing.
When it comes to 24/7 musical expressions, mother-of-the-year I am not. Some days when I’m writing, or simply trying to piece together a coherent thought, I dream that she could travel to a land far, far away from me and hang out in a sound proof room. Just try to keep my daughter from singing.
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