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I guess where I'm having a problem is with this part: If you are sitting (or standing) in service waiting for the song you like to show up before you can worship God, then you are going about it all wrong. We've ALL had shackles (of sin) taken off our feet, so we can now dance (for joy)! That ought to be a song we can all identify with! So why isn't it?
I have a feeling if Amazing Grace were sang in a newfangled way, with funky music, that it wouldn't matter what the lyrics were--it would be "sat on" by those who don't like that genre of music.
I understand not liking certain types of music. But I don't understand discrediting folks as not being anointed if they sing a style you don't like. Sure, certain lyrics, certain sounds...they stir up your heart...but does our heart have to be stirred by certain lyrics and sounds before we can get stirred up about God?
I have a feeling if folks came INTO His courts with praise, and were thanking God for His goodness and worshipping before the band ever struck a note--well, I just think it would make a big difference, and I think the particulars of the music would be a lot less important.
Where I think it's "all about me" is when someone waits for "their" song before they are able to get on their feet and praise God. You know, if you'd go ahead and lift your hands and put forth a passionate effort, who's to say your actions might not change your attitude?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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