Looking at the tired (ready to go home women,) I quickly knew my
challenge. I was the last speaker at a three-day conference. We were all ready
to go home! My immediate thought was to get the people on their feet and sing
something - but what? “No doubt they were missing their families, “You are my
Sunshine” immediately came to mind. Singing simultaneously energizes and
soothes our spirits.
For every culture and every age, music is a
language of emotion affecting us in profound and subtle ways. King Saul's spirit was calmed by David's harp.
David the writer, poet, singer and dancer, is said to have been (a man after
God’s own heart) passionately worshiping as he brought the ark into Jerusalem.
"Oh sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord all the earth ... tell
of his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-3.
As I prepared the Communion Table this morning I was thinking about
Jesus singing at the Last Supper, chanting the Hallel Psalms. From the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper, at this final meal Jesus
reconfigured the traditional Jewish Passover around his passion and death.
Shifting the focus away from the body and blood of the Passover lamb to the
sacrifice of his own body and blood, he told his disciples to eat and to drink.
When Jesus says “all has been made ready" Luke 14:17, we will eat and
drink with Him at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Revelation 19:9. As we
praise and worship corporately from every tongue, tribe and nation we will sing
a new song, Worthy is the Lamb!
Revelation 5:9.
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