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A Morning View By the Wood Stove

Ever get a song stuck in your head? Yup, me too! 

Aley Church is so blessed with musicians who love music and strive to express their praise and love for God in their music. One such group is the Bell Choir. They absolutely thrive on sharing the love of Jesus Christ in each song they play. As any group, they strive for perfection in their music and are their biggest critics, but I am blessed each time they play because it is to bring GLORY to GOD! 

The song that got stuck in my head this week is "To God Be the Glory." It has reminded me that all things are to bring glory to God. In all things we say and do we should bring glory to God. In everything we watch on TV and listen to with our ears should bring glory to God. In all of our relationships with one another, we should bring glory to God! With every heartbeat and breath we should bring glory to God.

"To God be the glory, great things he hath done:

so loved he the world that he gave us his son,

who yielded his life an atonement for sin,

and opened the lifegate that all may go in.


Refrain:

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,

and give him the glory, great things he hath done.


Oh, perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,

to ev’ry believer the promise of God.

The vilest offender who truly believes,

that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. [Refrain]


Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done,

and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son,

but purer, and higher, and greater will be

our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. [Refrain]"

                      - Author: Fanny Crosby (1875)


What a great song to have stuck in our heads 

What a great song to drive our lives and live in our hearts!


Peace,

PB




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