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Singing Is To Be A Response to God's Grace
The expression translated “with thanksgiving” (NASB) in Colossians 3:16 is literally, “in the grace.” The heart is moved to sing in response to all that God has done in His loving kindness. This grace is greater than circumstances. This grace enables believers to sing even when they are suffering pain or indignity, as Paul and Silas did at Philippi ( Acts 16:25).
My earliest memories are filled with the sounds of the saints singing about the sweetness of fellowship with Jesus and the life-dominating hope of seeing Him someday. Most of those dear old saints were very poor and lived in hard circumstances (and with no therapist to feel their pain!) but they could fill the atmosphere with the sweetest sounds I have ever heard.
Fanny Crosby was totally blind by the time she reached her sixth birthday. But God gave her spiritual sight through the New Birth and she was so overwhelmed at the greatness of God that she wrote, “To God be the glory great things he hath done.” In one of her most popular songs she wrote “Blessed assurance Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long.” She went on to write 8,000 hymns and songs in her lifetime.
The grace of God will be the sphere in which the worshipper moves. His singing will be the outward expression of his inner experience of God's grace—he will sing “in the grace.”
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