LIVING MUSICALLY
Luke 13:10-17
When you’ve learned the real Sabbath song, everything is changed by it. It is the rest song, the rest that comes out of victory. Jesus’ victory gives rest of heart. Then we’re keeping Sabbath day in our hearts every day. The music of it makes the wheels of life go easier. There’s an eagerness to get the Sabbath spirit—the rest spirit—into everybody else, casing pain of body and circumstance and heart for them.
HOW GOOD GOD IS!
Luke 4:16-22
“Worship” grows out of “worth.” It really means thinking deep down in your heart how worthy God is; how full of power in making the world so beautiful, and in sustaining life so constantly, even in those who leave him out; how full of love in giving his only Son to die; how patient, and gentle, and winsome, and motherly. It’s blessed to do it in the church service. It’s yet more blessed to do it in between times.
THE ZEST OF VICTORY
Mark 2:23-28; Mark 3:1-5
The old Sabbath was a rest day. It came at the end of the week’s work. Its observance was a recognition of the love that gave us life and time, strength to work, and enjoyment in rest. The new Sabbath is more—a victory day. It tells of Jesus’ victory over sin and death. It comes at the beginning of the week’s work. So we start the week with a song that lasts till Saturday night.
THE GREATEST THING—A PURE HEART!
1John 1:1-10
It’s a great thing to be forgiven—to be back in the old seat by the hearth-fire, the old score wiped off the slate, the heavy heart lightened, the Father smiling gently into your eyes. But there’s something more and yet better—to be cleaned up inside; the bad taken out, washed out, and burned out, and a new clean inside put in you. Jesus does both, though it cost him his life to do it.
SEEING THROUGH GOD’S EYES
Luke 7:41-50
Not that you must sin much to be forgiven much and so love much—not that. God doesn’t need bad to bring out his good. But when we see how much of a sin one sin is, and how bad a break just one break makes, then we begin to know what love God’s love is. Then our hearts are broken that we treated God so, and we’re down on our knees in untellable gratitude and eager service. It’s worth while to see as God sees.
