Making Melody in Our Hearts to the Lord

[233 words] Sing, sang, sung or singing when it comes to worshiping God through it, it’s a verb no matter how you say it. Worship in song is not meant to be entertainment any more than prayer, preaching or partaking of communion. It’s meant to have a purpose, a direction and a result: from us to God. But before it can reach its goal it has to have a starting place – namely our heart! There is also an aspect of singing in worship that is meant to capture, curtail and correct the wandering heart s of our brothers and sisters much like preaching, but even that aspect must begin and end with the Lord in our heart (Colossians 3:16). The heart strings of our brethren cannot be pulled unless we are already playing ours (Ephesians 5:19). And twiddling our thumbs during the time that we should be singing does…