Read Ephesians 5:15-20
Speak to one another
with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to
the Lord… (Ephesians 5:19)
WHEN I WAS a teenager, I was a
member of our church’s youth choir. We practiced on Sunday afternoons and would
often perform in our church’s Sunday night service. One Sunday night when I was
about 15 tears old, I was scheduled to sing my first ever solo. During the
service, my nerves got the best of me and I was imagining all of the worst case
scenarios in my head: my young voice cracking, forgetting the words, or losing
my place in the song.
Moments
before we were scheduled to sing, an older student in our youth ministry leaned
over to me and said, “Don’t be nervous. You know this song and I believe in you!”
I was so encouraged that I stood and sang at the top of my lungs (probably off
key) feeling like I could conquer the world…all because of a few words of
encouragement.
In our
world, positive encouraging words are in short supply. From the classroom to
the work place and even (at times) at church, hateful negative destructive
words wound hearts and break spirits. But, here in this passage, Paul commands
the believers at the church at Ephesus
to speak spiritually encouraging words to each other and to have a song of love
in their hearts. We need to remind each other of this admonishment today and
encourage one another in the Lord.
Lord Jesus, today help me to be a source of encouragement to each person I encounter.
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