Make a Joyful Noise

I have always liked to sing.  Of course, liking to do it and doing it well are two different things.  Ask my wife, Billie, if you are in doubt on either of those points.

 Though I don’t often make my way up into the choir, I almost always join in from the pew.  I often sing in the truck and while riding my trike.  More than once I have been waved at by total strangers because I have thrown up a hand in praise only to be mistaken as a wave to someone.  The ‘wavers’ usually have a bewildered look, too. But that’s okay.

 There is something about singing out praise to God that just boosts my spirit.  And I am certain that He is pleased to hear us lift up His name in song (Psa. 146:2; 147:1).

 As the choir leader from my youth used to say as he encouraged folks to join the choir, “The Bible says to make a joyful noise to the Lord.  It doesn’t say anything about being in tune.”

 With that thought in mind, I encourage you to lift up our Lord in song.  Whether you do so in the choir or from the pews, in your car or on your motorcycle, in the shower or while doing housework, I think it will raise your spirit, too.  And I am confident it will please God.

 
Psalm 100:1-5

(1)  (A Psalm of praise) Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

 (2)  Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

 (3)  Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 (4)  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

 (5)  For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

 Greg Wolford

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