Daily Devotion January 20, 2010

I've been feeling a little holy these days so I though I'd post one of the passages I read from "The Daily Bread"


Prelude of Praise
We enter a concert hall, find our seats, and listen with anticipation as the members of the orchestra tune their instruments. The sound is discordant, not melodic. But the tuning is simply are prelude to the symphony.

C.S. Lewis suggested that's how it is with our devotional practices and even our worship services. Sometimes
they sound discordant, but God hears our prayers and praises with fatherly delight. We are really preparing participation in the glorious symphony of heaven. Now we are making a minuscule contribution to the harmonies of angelic and redeemed hosts. But our adoration, though feeble, please the heart of the Divine Listener more than the finest rendition of earth's greatest orchestra.


Are we earger;y waiting our participation in heaven's symphony of praise? Are we joyfully participating in the adoration that delights the heart of God? Or do we regard devotion as more of a discipline than a delight?


Our attitudes will be transformed when we realize that praise delights God's heart. Praise helps us to tune our lives to heavenly harmonies.


Praise is an indispensable preparation to the worship that will be our eternal joy. "Let everyhting that has breath praise the Lord" (PS. 105:6) - Vernon Grounds