Songs you love may tell who you love

 

    You know, songs you love best have a way of telling who you love most.  Much of what we sing in church is songs about us. Second to that are songs about what we have been given. Still, they are also about us.  Then, there are songs sang directly to Him and they express our deepest love to Him face to face.  Those are the songs I love because they are focus me on the one I love.

   The condition of being "spirit-filled", as described in Ephesians is that we start singing to ourselves psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, melodies of the heart "to him".  These are not songs about us, sung to us.  They are songs sung  "to him".  For sure, we can testify, preach, and prophesy one to another in songs, and that is good, but when songs become love songs, they are "to him" and that is wonderful. 

   There is a great absence of love songs right now in the church world, it seems to me. Lots of songs about us, about what we have, even some about the devil but not many love songs.  For those of you who are married, or seriously dating, can you imagine singing to your loved one about the devil while you are in the process of giving a deep loving kiss?  Happens all the time in the church world.  Right in the middle of a time of intimacy with God, someone starts singing about the devil, or about themselves. This tells me that they probably don't really understand worship and it strikes me as both funny and sad.  Think about some of the songs we are singing.  Can you imagine looking into His wonderful face and taking the time to sing that song to Him?

   Don't get me wrong: songs that testify, preach, proclaim, that encourage faith, etc., are not bad.   In fact some times they are best for the situation, but oh, don't you love it when the song arises that speaks your heart to His heart?  For me, I come unglued. I melt.  I fade away and He fills the vision of my heart.  In the Lakeland, Fla., revival I enjoyed Roy Fields so much. He sang those pounding testimony songs such as "I am free" and I sang with him and ten thousand other voices.  However, I remember and treasure a moment that came when he abruptly stopped that and sang in almost a whisper "Show me your face Lord, show me your face".  That was the moment when I kissed the Son.  Every fiber in my being stretched toward His presence.  I was lost in Him.  Now, those are the times I am talking about. Ever had one?

   In my experience, when a move of God, a revival is fresh, the songs become simple, straightforward and often directly addressed to HIm.  The further away from the move we move, the more complex and man-centered the songs become.   Prayer is the same.  I wonder sometimes, looking back, did He move, or, did we?  Did He drift away, or did we lose our focus on HIm and turn it on ourselves?  Could it be that we stopped singing to Him and He moved back over in the shadows to await the return of our passion for Him?  Could it be that we kill move after move, revival after revival, because we can't keep our focus on anything but ourselves?