Make my life an alleluia!

Have you ever had conversations in your head?  Like, you talk yourself into something or OUT of something?  It was early Sunday morning and I was alone as my hubby was gone ice fishing for the weekend.  The alarm went off and these thoughts came through, loud and clear:

NOT YET – I don’t want to get up!

            But you have to get up – there’s church today.

BUT the bed is warm and I’m tired.  I don’t have to go today.  I go every Sunday, I can miss today.

            What about choir?  Aren’t you singing in choir?

YES, but they don’t need me.

            YES they do and you want to go to church, remember?  You love worship.

I know, but the bed feels so good  . . . . .

Anybody else out there?  Oh, I got up, got ready and was late for choir rehearsal but glad I went because later, during worship, as we (the choir) sang one of my favorites, my life song, I like to think, “Make My Life An Alleluia”, my heart was overwhelmed with praise and thanksgiving for where I was - worship. 

Now we had practiced the song at least twice before worship - never had the “feeling” then.  But as I sang these words, they touched my heart so much I just had to share them with you:

Make my life an alleluia – a song of praise to You each day.

To proclaim Your grace and glory,

fill my heart with Your praise I pray.

When I stand at the mountain top or the valley of despair,

This will be my cry, my song, my prayer

Lord, make my life, an alleluia!

I can’t tell you what that did for my heart – singing those words – MEANING those words.  It brought me to where I needed to be that morning.  The song goes on to say,

            Make my life an alleluia – a gift of love to You, my King,

I will join with all creation in the song that the heavens sing

            The earth will turn and the planets spin,

as the seasons ebb and flow;  still Your grace surrounds me as I go.

            Lord, make my life, an allelulia!

Isn’t that what we all want?  To be a song of praise, a gift of love?  To join in all creation and praise the One and Only, the Creator?  Psalm 8 says,

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!  You have set Your glory above the heavens.

From the lips of children and infants.

You have ordained praise because of Your enemies.

To silence the foe and the avenger.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which You have set in place,

what is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

My devo this morning said, “True worship has this effect upon us.  It simultaneously humbles and uplifts us.  In other words, worship places us exactly where we should be, in the realization that we are small, . . . we are tiny creatures in the presence of God, but tiny creatures whom He adores.” (Sanctuary, David Jeremiah)

This “tiny” creature LOVES worship and LONGS for the presence of Her Savior.  I NEED to start my day that way – with the God of the heavens and earth – the One Who adores me (really?), Who has ordains praise, Who crowns me with glory and honor. 

What would my attitude, my day, have been if I hadn’t started out in worship?   I shudder to think!!

The song ends with,

When I come to my journey’s end, may those left behind be reminded,

this has been my cry, my song, my prayer, Lord, make my life an alleluia!

 

I pray this, with all my heart.