A JOYFUL SYMPHONY
Today's reading: Psalm 95-103

"Sing your praise to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and melodious song, with trumpets and the sound of the ram's horn. Make a joyful symphony before the Lord, the King!" Psalm 98:5-6 NLT

Make a joyful symphony before the Lord...

I've never noticed that.

In all the years I've been reading my Bible, Genesis to maps, I've never noticed those words...

..make a joyful symphony...

Sure I've seen the instruction to 'Sing', even to 'Sing a new song', I even recall being asked to 'Make a joyful noise'...but a symphony?

I had to look up the definition of the word, just to be sure.

A symphony is an elaborate musical composition for full orchestra.

My take?

It's including all of me in the joyful noise I make for the Lord.

My eyes, my hands, my words, my feet, my thoughts, my heart, my soul, my attitude, my expectations and my prayers. It's all of me, all that I'm in charge of, praising Him in unison.

It's all of me playing the same praise song. It won't work if my hands and words are busy singing His glory but my heart is humming a mournful hymn in regards to an unanswered prayer.

It's getting on the same page--in the same hymnal--on the same song--in the same key!

And doing it grandly. Elaborately. With excellence.