Our song is secondly -- always on our lips! In addition to
humming the song, we just spontaneously can start singing it at any moment. It
fills us with joy. This is the essence of God being our song. Not only should
He be always on our mind but He should always be on our lips. We should find
ourselves responding as He would and about who He is. When we talk to the
unsaved we should never be ashamed of whom we believe in. Don't worry about
offending people. Where are you going to offend them to? Hell number two? I
think about the blind man healed by Jesus in the Gospel of John. It infuriated
the Pharisees who questioned the healed man.
So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, "God should get the glory for this, because we know this man Jesus is a sinner." "I don't know whether he is a sinner," the man replied. "But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!" -- John 9: 24-25 (NLT)
When Jesus is our song -- you can say anything you like -- all I know is I was blind but now I see! The world can mock me and call me unenlightened -- all I know is I was blind but now I see! Oh beloved, when we consider all He has already done for us, how can we not sing of who He is? Our lives should sing of who He is!
The final exhortation for us today is that we need to exalt God in our lives. As the key verse reminds us -- the victories are His! Whatever I have He has allowed me to have. Whoever I have helped He has allowed me to help. But we live in such a me-centric society today. The church is rapidly becoming a secular institution that tries to fit Christ into their apostasy. When you have more messages in a year about tithing than you have about sin and repentance, you know we are on the wrong road. Fifty years ago, the song on our lips was about how great thou art and today it is about how much blessing we deserve. The song on our lips must be about Him again. He parted the Red Seas in our lives. He delivered us out from under the yoke of bondage and slavery in this world.
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever. So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free. -- John 8: 34-36 (NLT)
We are truly free but many of us still clamp the shackles around our own ankles. Many of us refuse to walk in the freedom Christ appropriated for us on Calvary. It cannot be about us and God -- He will not share His glory. We must learn to rely upon His might because He is our strength. He must be the song that is constantly on our minds and rolling off our lips. We need to exalt Him above everything else beloved. Sing your own song of deliverance today and see how powerful God can be in your life!
Reverend Anthony Wade -- April 25, 2013
