The Song Prevails

Psalm 114:1,2 - "When Israel went out of Egypt; and the house of the Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was His Sanctuary; and Israel His Dominion." When God's People depart from the entrenchment of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; God makes us His Holiness and the Realm of His power to be displayed to encourage other sojourners to walk His way.

Are we His sanctuary(A place set apart for only Him) and His dominion (A place where He rules)? So, here is the beginning of our story ... There was a blinding flash and the sounds of war were all around us. The battle actually was now in the trenches and the siege was on. The enemy looked familiar, but as soon as they spoke we heard their natural, unspiritual, politically correct babble; we should have recognized that we were the aliens, the outcasts, the pilgrims ... the different ones.

Suddenly...The cry as a song came from Above - "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, come to Me!" ... Our flight began as we became part of the "Praising ... Called out assembly". We were free, miraculously, from the divisive entrenchment of the enemy, and from the unintelligibly oppressive communications from those comfortable with abiding there. Now, the Word was becoming clear, and the direction of our lives was turning from our shame to the glory that the King had prepared for us, as He would dwell in us. Hallelujah!!

We began to move forward in the Song and the Song in us. And the Sea parted, the river split, the mountains skipped and whirled away like rams and the little hills like lambs. The Rock became a standing water, and the flint a fountain of water... The inanimate came alive providing passage and sustenance... All the world trembled before Him ... in us.

The divisions and obstructions that kept us from moving His direction, were now so terrified by this Indwelling Song of this assembly that they were dancing, whirling and fleeing out of the Way. At first we were paralyzed by the magnitude of the obstructions ahead of us, but then when the dance of the obstructions began, we were held in awe of this miracle. And so we asked the question, "Seas, rivers, mountains and hills what has sickened and weakened your resolve to stand in our way and caused you to flee away?"

The answer was life changing - "The Song of Hope is in You" - "Christ, The King is in You all!" At that moment we had a momentary window to understand why the whole creation was groaning. We had always believed that the seas, the rivers, the mountains and the hills were a hindrance or a blockade from the enemy. We had never understood nor realized that all Creation was groaning to be free also; free from the division, free to worship and cry out their song in the night ... crying from the need of His Presence ... that would release them from the bondage of the curse of sin.

O hear the Song again, the song of a soul set free... the redemption of the Sons of God.

Every day can either be a day entrenched in the disappointment of not being where we think we should be; or we can greet the day as a divine appointment to rise above the entrenchments of the enemy and begin to animate the world around us with His Song of freedom.

"Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night His Song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life." Psalm 42:8

HLFA,

Jeff