"God Sings!"

"The LORD will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing." (Zephaniah 3:17)

Recently, our church welcomed two distinguished musicians ... an oboist and a violinist. Their first offering was called "Antiphonal Praise". The musicians stood apart from each other ... first the oboist played and then the violinist responded. Back and forth they "sang" to each other with their instruments until finally, they played the last notes together. As I heard someone later say, "It was achingly beautiful."

When I read the scriptures this morning, I thought of this. We come together on Sundays and join our voices in songs of worship and praise to God. Until this morning, I had thought of these beautiful hymns as being one-sided ... worshipers singing to God. After reading Zephaniah 3:17 this morning, I sense that we are like this offering of music by the oboist and violinist. We sing ... and of all things, God sings! Back and forth, we sing to each other until finally, like the oboist and violinist, we sing together in holy and beautiful music.

God rejoices over us with gladness ... God loves us so much as to renew us in his love ... and GOD SINGS!