GRACEFUL SINGING
When D. L. Moody visited New Haven in 1878, R. A. Torrey was a student in the University there. He said, “The ripest scholar in the University at the time, if not the ripest in America, was President Wolsey, Ex-President of Yale University. One night a young man went up to hear Mr. Moody preach and President Wolsey sat on the platform. When they sang the old Gospel hymns, President Wolsey himself, a gray-haired scholar, joined in singing the hymns with all his heart. That young man said, ‘Well, if one of the greatest scholars in America could sing those hymns in that way, there certainly must be something in it,’ and he was converted. Not through Mr. Moody’s preaching, but through President Wolsey’s singing.”
What is in the singing that made it the tool for the conversion of that young man rather than the preaching? What is in singing and music that made the evil spirit depart from Saul whenever David played the harp? (Read I Samuel 16:23).
Despite all the powerful worship team on our campuses and fellowship centers today, why is revival still a hard task today? Why has our singing not made sinners drop their sins and be converted to the Lord? Why are there more sinners than saints everywhere? Why are we developing more talents and acquiring more gadgets to make our songs more appealing and yet the world of sinners remain untransformed? What is the secret behind those songs that is missing in the songs of today?
“…singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” Colossian 3”16. Let our singers be carriers of God’s matchless grace. Let the presence of God saturate them all over again. Songs that will set our fellowships and the nations on fire for God must come from God Himself, not from the world. Let our music ministers enter into the closet and let God put a seal of divine ownership on the songs so that the nations can sing the praises of our God again.
