The Lord Is My Song

What you allow to form you in the deepest part of your life, what you allow to be your foundation, always produces the consequences consistent with the nature of that foundation!

Henry Giles said, “A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”

I believe that’s true.

Several years ago, I was blessed to sit at the bedside of a precious friend’s mother as she lay dying. She had been unresponsive for several days, and the family was already grieving as their mother was close to death. I knew she had been raised in a typical Southern town and a typical Southern church, so I started to sing an old hymn from my youth, and sure enough, this precious lady began to sing along with me. The family was overjoyed at this sign of life in their mother. A few days later, she passed on.

It just brings home to me the truth of another old saying: “He who sings prays twice.”

Why do you think the Church has always had chanters?

Singing drives words deep into our hearts. That’s why music is so powerful and so dangerous: Bad ideas are also driven deep into our hearts and minds.