Sing psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs among yourselves,
singing and making melody
to the Lord in your hearts.
Ephesians 5:19
Are you like me … with a tune or lyric occasionally running through your mind? What song are you singing in your heart today?
At our house we have a rule of sorts: No Christmas music until the Friday after Thanksgiving. It’s after the day after! So normally I’d think that Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire or Herald Angels Singing would be in my head this week. They’re not. At the moment (for no reason other than a history of praise) the song running through my heart is All Creatures of Our God and King.
Do you remember the second verse of this old hymn. “Lift up your voice and let us sing.” This hymn was written well after the age of the Apostles, but the Apostle Paul’s heart clearly sung hymns like this regularly. Why? Because that’s his prescription to the people of Ephesus today.
In a scriptural book that’s known for its warnings about spiritual attacks and the warfare of the devil (see Ephesians 6), Paul is prescribing a powerful antidote to life’s trials: Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts.
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who sings more frequently
during this Most Wonderful Time of the Year
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