...Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.... Ephesians 5:18-19
To Paul, it seemed impossible to be filled with the Spirit and the Word of God without also being filled with song, for the Spirit is a singing Spirit, and God's Word is our hymnbook! God's presence and his precepts stir such inward rejoicing that only singing can release. Paul was more than propounding a theory. He was writing from experience. For some years prior to this letter to the Ephesians, he and Silas, while bound in stocks in the inner dungeon there at Philippi, had found both emotional and physical release in singing. Paul knew that the Spirit does not sing only in cheerful, happy circumstances, but that the song of the Spirit is consistent in spite of our situation in life.
Frankly, we need the inner song of the Spirit more in harsh circumstances than in pleasant ones, for song renews faith and courage in the midst of adversity. Song joins us in fellowship with God and others and brings us back to a God-consciousness. Singing can give us endurance spiritually, emotionally, and physically. How marvelous it is that God's Spirit within us is a singing Spirit. Copied
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Indebted,
Mitch
