Lip-Synch-Gate

Beyoncé’s singing of the National Anthem sparked a national debate!  It wasn’t the rendition of the sacred melody, but the fact she faked it.  Her lip-synching of our anthem was unacceptable to most Americans. This surprises me since we accept and even endorse fake lifestyles.

What’s that got to do with prayer and our journey to Easter?  A very valid question!

A fascinating study came out some years ago that discovered that people stop thinking about the lyrics of songs after they have sung them thirty times.  That probably varies depending on the person, but the tendency is universal and has implications when it comes to our regular worship.

Every time you and I sing a song we’ve song more than thirty times, it begs the question, are we lip-synching to God or genuinely expressing our true heart and feelings to Him?

For so many, worship requires someone else’s words be spoken or sung rather than finding our own.  To sing only the songs we know removes the possibility the Holy Spirit wants to give us a new one as was promised by both the Palmist and the Apostle Paul.  Both suggest we sing a new song or songs of the Spirit (Ps. 96:1, Eph. 5:19).

David went so far as to tell us to sing a new song six times; why?  God gets tired of old songs!  Our worship should not just be worship from memory, but we must learn to allow it to flow from our imagination as well. . 

It has been said; “love isn’t repetitive; love is creative.”  How creative is your love to our God?  Do you need a spiritual Hallmark card, i.e.a hymnal or chorus on the screen to worship?  Is your worship created only by others who have written moving expressions of their soul that you’ve learned to sing? 

If I expressed my love to Cheryl the same way over and over, she just might stop believing me at some point.  She doesn’t want my mindless expressions, she wants passion from my soul.

Don’t give God anything less!

I’ll meet you at the throne,

Pastor George