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Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 497
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 9:47 am: |     |
"When they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments...and they were smitten" (2 Chron. 20:22).
Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how.
Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and wonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered--how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them.
We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more without care than anything else that I know of.
Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.
Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through. --Selected
"Don't let the song go out of your life
Though it chance sometimes to flow
In a minor strain; it will blend again
With the major tone you know.
"What though shadows rise to obscure life's skies,
And hide for a time the sun,
The sooner they'll lift and reveal the rift,
If you let the melody run.
"Don't let the song go out of your life;
Though the voice may have lost its trill,
Though the tremulous note may die in your throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still.
"Don't let the song go out of your life;
Let it ring in the soul while here;
And when you go hence, 'twill follow you thence,
And live on in another sphere."
--from Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman
A timely reminder for me, I share it with you!
Blessings,
Mary |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 493
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:08 am: | |
Mary thanks for reminding us of the power of song in our lives. If we sing of His love and praise Him we are lifted to another level in our lives. My singing ability is not great so I was glad to see the following in your note.
"Though the tremulous note may die in your throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still."
I let it die in my throat so it does not persecute those near me. 
bless you,
richard
rtruitt@mac.com
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Lynne
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Username: Lynne
Post Number: 374
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:10 am: | |
Thank you Mary. My husband loves Streams in the Desert. I always saw him reading it while I was an Adventist.
I saw him as a heretic, Sunday worshiper, deceived and following Satan...
I'm sorry I believed the lies I was taught by the Seventh-day Adventist church.
Now we have peace together and sing melodiously together as Christians.
I thought I had peace as an Adventist because of obedience, laws (no alcohol, drugs, health maintainence, a day of no work, external improvement, etc....).
But now I really have peace because of what Jesus has brought me. I can really feel it! I really didn't know what peace was with laws and behavior modification.
A lie is a lie, and when you follow a lie, sooner or later, you will spiritually die!
But in Christ
Romans 5
1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The bible does not say we are saved by the day we worship or rest, not by what we eat or how much we try to do anything to please God. All those things are our external works. They have nothing to do with what Jesus has done for us.
Romans 10:4: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
http://www.desiringgod.org/library/fresh_words/2005/022305.html
With all of my heart, it is Christ alone!
Thank you Jesus!
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Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 3900
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:15 am: | |
Lynne, I so relate to your emotion about being set free and given true peace. I praise God!
Thanks for the devotional, Mary.
Colleen |
Rafael_r
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Username: Rafael_r
Post Number: 58
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:19 am: | |
Mary, AMEN. |
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