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I read a phrase today that I’ve read a million times before and always just kind of skimmed over it.  “make music in your heart”.  What does that really mean?  The heart can’t really sing.  Or can it?

Music is powerful.  It has the ability to take mere words and give them an intensity that can penetrate a person’s soul.  It speaks to us.  It moves us.  It is raw and real and honest.  It picks up where lyrics alone are not enough to convey an emotion.  It puts arms and legs to our words to help them reach and touch and dance in the deepest places of the soul.

When we learn a song “by heart”, we are able to sing it, almost without thinking, because it has become a part of who we are.  Our heart has taken it in and memorized it.  And singing it out loud becomes an effortless outflow of what is ingrained in us.

If I am making music in my heart, I am allowing my heart to be open and honest and expressive.  I am opening it up to the power of real emotion.  I am giving it the opportunity to dance.  To love with abandon.  To bring “music” to the lives of others.  And a heartfelt “melody” to the heart of God…

 

Ephesians 5:19 – …singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord…

There’s a stirring in my soul

A beat within my heart

A rhythm deep inside I can’t deny

And joining in the pulse

A heartfelt melody

Is dancing in the corners of my mind

Is this what they call

The music of the heart?

When the soul feels a rhythm

Sings in harmony each part?

Is this that lovely place

Where heaven and earth collide?

Where angels join the chorus

And two realms are unified?

I caught a glimpse of heaven

Even though my eyes were closed

So vivid when my heart sang out

It’s heartfelt, simple prose

The rhythm isn’t perfect

The pitch might be off key

But Jesus calls it beautiful

My heartfelt melody.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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