Children of a Singing God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.

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0:00.0	April 27, children of a singing God, and when they had sung to him, they went out to the
0:09.4	Mount of Olives, Mark 14, 26.
0:14.7	Can you hear Jesus singing?
0:17.9	Was he a bass or a tenor?
0:21.5	Was there a down-home twine to his voice, or was there an unwavering crystal pit?
0:29.9	Did he close his eyes and sing to his father?
0:33.4	Or did he look into his disciples' eyes and smile at their deep camaraderie?
0:39.7	Did he usually start the song, or did Peter, or James, or maybe Matthew do it?
0:46.5	Oh, I can hardly wait to hear Jesus sing.
0:50.2	I think the planets would be jolted out of orbit if he lifted his native voice in our
0:55.7	universe.
0:57.3	But we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken, so Lord, go ahead, do it, sing.
1:05.5	It could not be otherwise, but that Christianity be a singing face.
1:11.0	The founder sang?
1:12.7	He learned to sing from his father?
1:15.2	Surely they have been singing together from all eternity?
1:18.6	Don't you think so?
1:20.1	Would not infinite eternal happiness in the fellowship of the Trinity?
1:24.5	Sing.
1:25.6	Bible says the aim of our singing is to raise sounds of joy for Chronicles 15, 16.
1:33.1	No one in the universe has more joy than God.
1:37.3	He is infinitely joyful.
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