L.A.C.E.~ Making Life a Song

I never fail to glean wonderful insights and encouragement from the writings of J R Miller!

I particularly like his thoughts in this sermon about the type of music we make with our lives.

Is it beautiful and harmonious.. a blessing to God and others?

All our routine daily actions and attitudes can become a sweet hymn of praise if we allow them to be !

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exerpts taken from Making Life a Song by J.R. Miller

"A beautiful scrap of instruction out of old rabbinical lore tells us that there are in heaven two kinds of angels – the angels of service and the angels of praise.

The latter are of a higher order than the former.

No one of them praises God twice, but having once lifted up his or her voice in the song of heaven, they cease to be.

They have perfected their being.

Their song is the full flower and perfect fruit of their lives, that for which they were made.

They have now finished their work, and their life is breathed out in their one holy psalm.

There is in this delightful fancy a deep truth, that the highest act of which immortal life is capable of is praise!

The un-praising life has not yet realized its holiest mission.

It has not yet borne the sweetest, ripest, best fruit.. which in God’s sight is most precious of all.

In heaven all life is praise, and we come near heaven’s spirit only as we learn to praise..

The gift of song is one of the noblest endowments bestowed upon mortals.

But there is a music that is not vocal.

Every one should be able to make music in the world though he or she cannot sing a note.

There is a way in which we may all make songs; we can make our own life a song if we will!

Every beautiful life is a song.

There are many people living in the midst of unattractive circumstances, amid hardship, toil, and care, whose daily life breathes out gentle music, which bless others about them.

They do no great services, but they crowd the hours with little ministries, which fall like silver bell-notes on weary hearts.

They are faithful in all their commonplace duties.

They are patient under all manner of irritating experiences.

They keep happy and contented even in times of suffering and need - cheerful and trusting, even in want.

They live in quiet harmony with the will of God, making no jarring discords by in-submission or willfulness. Thus in their lowly sphere they make music which is sweet to the ear both of God and man.

God wants our life to be a song.

 He has written the music for us in his Word, and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in life.

The things we ought to do are the notes set upon the staff.

To make our life beautiful music we must be obedient and submissive.

Any disobedience is the singing of a false note and yields discord.

Any in-submission breaks the melody.

Obedience and joyous submission makes glad music.

There is only One who can take our lives with their entire fault and sin, their broken strings and jangled chords, and bring from them the music of love, joy, and peace.

There comes One to us and desires to take our life and play upon it.

But we withhold ourselves from Him and refuse Him permission, when if we would but yield ourselves to Him, He would bring from our souls heavenly music!

Come what may, we should make our lives songs.

We have no right to add to the world’s discords or to sing any but sweet strains in the ears of others.

We should start no note of sadness in this world, which is already so full of sadness.

We should add something every day to the stock of the world’s happiness.

If we are truly Christ’s and walk with him we cannot but sing!!"

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Hello dear friends..are you ready to make some sweet heavenly music today?

A warm Wednesday welcome to L.A.C.E.

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