A Beautiful Harmony

I am not much of a singer. I have an ok voice that breaks down easily into falsetto and mismatched notes. Earlier in my life, I sang in the church choir (when we attended much smaller churches), but I was never quite comfortable. I can only barely read music and am very reliant on being by someone else who can.

However, you do not have to be a great singer to enjoy the harmonizing and worship of being in the presence of God's people lifting up the love of God through Jesus Christ in song. Three times yesterday I was in the presence of God's people lifting up the message of the gospel through song. In the morning, I attended a men's breakfast at Christ Community Chapel and we gathered after breakfast in the sanctuary and sang praises to God.


In the afternoon, we attended the Saturday evening church service and of course part of the service was worshiping God  through song. Finally, later in the evening we met with our "flocks" group. This is a group of people we have been meeting with for years and years. Our kids grew up together and many of them are friends. We started out all in the same church as a group, but now span different churches. But we still get together for fellowship, worship, studying the Bible, and prayer.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God (Col 3:16).

Singing is the way we can reach out to God and express the love we have for Him. We can certainly do that individually, but when done in community, it expresses both the fellowship we have with God and the fellowship we have with one another. In other words, the true essence of relationship is both vertical (with God) and horizontal (with one another). Worshiping through song best conveys that essence.

I find it especially uplifting to hear men praising God. Debsue and I were talking about it and there is something powerful about men singing in unison to God. With women, it is more a sense of beauty - with men, it is more a sense of power and strength. 

be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to  God, even the Father; and be subject to one another in the  fear of Christ. (Eph 5:18-21)