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One year, my step-father took all of five of us kids to a Christmas Party sponsored by the American Legion. At some point in the program, the host called all the children at the party up to the stage to sing “Frosty the Snowman.” Once up there, everyone developed stage fright and the only person who actually sang was me. I remember standing there while a photographer took my picture for the next day’s paper and thinking how neat that was. Other than that instance, I would say I have sung in public maybe a total of two or three times. You see, I have this problem—I cannot sing. At least, I can’t sing well. My range is very limited and rather low, so the soprano notes tend to come out of my mouth in a squeak or a broken line. Fairly awful, actually. While singing in public isn’t something I choose to do any longer, when I am in my car I sing along with almost every song on the radio, and I sing loudly. The reason I do this is because God told me I should.
One morning on my way to work I began to despair about my inability to worship God with a beautiful voice. I so love Him that I want to be able to worship Him in every way that is available. So, I would sing and lament that it didn’t sound pretty enough for Him. As I drove along praying such thoughts to God—my loving, encouraging Daddy—He spoke to me very quietly. What I felt Him say to me was this… “When you sing from your heart, you are worshiping me. I don’t care how you think you sound; to Me, you sound beautiful, because I’m listening to your heart. Please keep singing to Me.”
I still listen with awe and a tiny bit of jealousy when someone sings in our church. When I hear a beautiful worship song on the radio, I wish I had the voice to share that song with the world for Him. What I’m learning is that I don’t need to sing to the world about God. I need to sing to God about my love for Him. I’ll use the other abilities He has given me to share with the world about Him, because I love Him so that I cannot be silent. After all, isn’t all worship a beautiful song to our Father?
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