Soul Music
Singing has always been something I love to do. When I was a small girl, I would cry, if I wasn’t asked to sing at singings and gatherings. It is a family favorite. My grandpa loved to play the fiddle, so we would do the singing. Now I may not be all that good at it, but I love to try. Rev. R.W. Schambach said, God not only made the canaries, but also the crows. So I have something to sing about.
One can always sing a song to God. He delights in hearing our praise. the Bible says –
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Eph. 5:19
Let music from your soul come forth and praise the Almighty God who made all things. Let melodies arise early in the morning from the heart. We please God mightily when we do so.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with understanding. Ps.47:7
Prayer by Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661 in his writings.
LORD, my voice by nature is harsh and untunable, and it is vain to lavish any art to better it. Can my singing of psalms be pleasing to thy ears, which is unpleasant to my own? yet though I cannot chant with the nightingale, or chirp with the blackbird, I had rather chatter with the swallow, Isaiah xxxviii. 14. yea, rather croak with the raven, than be altogether silent. Hadst thou given me a better voice, I would have praised thee with a better voice. Now what my music wants in sweetness, let it have in sense, singing praises with understanding. Psalms xlvii. 7. Yea, Lord, create in me a new heart (therein to make melody), Ephes. v. 19. and I will be contented with my old voice, until in thy due time, being admitted into the choir of heaven, I have another, more harmonious, bestowed upon me.
