It has been roughly 36 hours since we dismissed from worship yesterday morning. The time really doesn't matter because I simply cannot get out of my head one of the songs we sang. It has been in my head, and I have been watching it on You Tube.
Before the lesson, our worship leader, Kaleb Suggs, led a song he had led a time or two before. It was entitled, "My Living Hope." A powerful, powerful song, I felt like I was hearing it for the first time, I felt like the words of the song were written expressly for me. Have you ever felt that in a worship selection? I usually don't.
But as we were singing, and approaching the chorus, instinctively my hands up, raising them to my Father in heaven, lifting my hands up to him in worship and praise. Read these lines carefully from the chorus. Contemplate the point being made.
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me freeHallelujah, death has lost its grip on meYou have broken every chainThere's salvation in Your nameJesus Christ, my living hope
Even now as I type this, I am singing the song, I feel filled with the Spirit. Once again, I want to raise my hands to God, like I did in worship yesterday, as if I were a little child reaching for the Father.
Hymns move us. Scripture moves us. Prayer moves us. If you raise your hands heavenward during a particularly powerful song that moves you, Praise the Lord! If you are just as moved by the same selection, but would feel better not raising your hands, Praise the Lord! Whether you say amen after a song or prayer, or following a meaningful part of the lesson, Amen to that. If you choose to be silent, Amen to that as well.
We are all, being filled with the Spirit, bringing our worship to God, collectively as a group of believing saints, offering our worship to Him. We are not pre-programmed robots bearing preset responses. We our God's children, we are sinners, we come to worship broken, we are hurting, our souls cry out. We are all different, yet we are all in need of help that only the Father can give us.
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me freeHallelujah, death has lost its grip on meYou have broken every chainThere's salvation in Your nameJesus Christ, my living hope
Praise God!
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