EVERYBODY has attended a kidz musical program at one time or another. You may have attended as a guest - you most likely all attended as a performer. If you are a parent you know that inevitably there will come a time when your school-age children will have a program where you will go and watch them sing. You'll dress them up pretty (handsomely for the tough boys), you'll get your cameras and make the husband get the video recorder. You'll have an argument before the musical because your husband didn't charge the camera today like you clearly told him to this morning and you're not surprised because he never does what you tell him and...
You know the routine: you go to the function, one parent drops the kidz off at the appointed meeting spot while the other goes to the auditorium to get the best possible seat - the one with the best angle for video (must be close for sound quality reasons) while assuring that you can get the great camera shots when your little one is singing.
You don't care how they sing - you love them and are just tickled to see them perform for you. And the kidz on the other hand - they are singing with their class but they are singing for you. As a matter of fact, when they catch you out of the corner of their eye they actually sing just a little bit harder (just in case you can't hear "them" good enough).
Who are the kidz singing for? They are singing for the people that they love more than anyone else in the world, their parents. That's a picture of our corporate worship.
When we gather in the place of worship together we get ready because "Daddy's" coming; He's coming and He's not coming to be entertained by our excellent singers and extravagant band; No, Daddy is coming to hear you sing to Him.
"Oh, I don't really sing well..." is the excuse - Daddy doesn't care. "When we worship together I'm worshiping, I just do it to myself - after all, I don't want to offend anyone with my voice.". What parent who loves their child isn't thrilled to watch them sing, even when he/she isn't a gifted singer? Maybe as you worship you just need to "catch Him out of the corner of your eye" - it will make you sing just a little harder just in case He can't hear you.
Some of you aren't that familiar yet with Him to actually think of Him as Daddy, much less call Him that. Guess what: He's familiar with you! He delights in you and He loves to hear you sing to Him. He smiles when He hears you sing about Him. He is proud when you talk to others about Him. Nothing would please Him more than for you to stop fighting Him and just begin loving Him.
6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. Galatians 4:6,7
We sing. We sing LOUD. We sing for Daddy. Sunday's Coming... will you be ready to sing for Him?
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