47, 5-7, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, (3/11/2022)
Today I would like to explore a little more of Making Melody to God. Last week we started with that poem. Unfortunately I did not include the scripture verses that inspired that poem. But, you Dave, being ever vigilant, saw that and read the scripture after the poem. I would like to reread the poem with the scripture and follow up with what God led me to a day or so later.
Let the word (spoken by) the Christ, the Messiah,
have its home (in your hearts and minds) and
dwell in you in (all its) richness, as you teach
and admonish and train one another in all insight
and intelligence and wisdom (in spiritual things
and sing) psalms and spiritual songs, making
melody to God with (His) grace in your hearts.”
Colossians 3:16 Amplified
MAKE MELODY TO GOD, (pg 41 God's Rhyme)
We sing Your Word
which we have heard
with our ears
throughout the years.
We sing
& the words ring
of what You have done
thru Jesus Your son.
Psalms & hymns
sung of Him
Whose life is praised,
from death he was raised.
Living
for years
knowing
life’s fears
crying
hurt tears
Then,
believing
without sight
accepting
now the light
living
thru His might.
We sing even more
of His glorious splendor,
of the life He has given
unlocking the gates to Heaven.
Psalms, hymns & spiritual songs
of His righting our wrongs,
we sing of His glory
that all may hear His story.
May our living be a melody
to God & His Son’s body.
May we sing with His grace
In our hearts in faith.
Discussion:
From Paul’s letter to the Colossians
Let the word (spoken by) the Christ, the Messiah, have its home (in your hearts and minds) and
dwell in you in (all its) richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight
and intelligence and wisdom (in spiritual things and sing) psalms and spiritual songs, making
melody to God with (His) grace in your hearts.” (Amplified Bible)
This is what I read in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians a couple of days after recording last week’s podcast:
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God. (NKJV)
Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, making melody to God
As I was dwelling on what more to say, this is what came to my mind:
May the Spirit lead us.
May we follow Jesus.
And in voices we raise
May we sing in praise
As we have understood
All that God has is good,
And as we have confessed
We have been truly blessed.
We read the Psalms,
We have sung the songs
Of praise and worship
And of our kinship
With God through His Son.
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