Colossians 3:16-17 (NIV) - “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

“There’s something about singing that both enables and encourages the rich indwelling of the word of Christ in our hearts. The ‘word of Christ’ is the gospel. It’s who Jesus is, what he’s done, and why it matters. That gospel is to dwell in us richly through singing. Singing is what helps us do that and express that.’

Paraphrasing musicologist Harold Best, Kauflin says, ‘God has taken the most precise way of communicating truth, which is words, and combined it with the vaguest way of communicating truth, which is music - and he’s put them together to make singing. The purpose is that what we know with our minds gets connected in our hearts.’

How, then, does singing help us feel the gospel? One way, among many, is ’singing helps us meditate and reflect on the words we’re singing by drawing them out. We slow it down, we repeat it’ - and in doing so, the weight and significance has longer to ring in our souls and penetrate to our depths.” (Interview with Bob Kauflin, “Singing Helps Us Feel the Gospel”).

Spend some time today worshipping to this song. Put the song on repeat and let the truth of the gospel to penetrate deeply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c6kh4UJ_4I

-DP