My roots go deep into southern gospel music. I started
singing as soon as I could talk. My mom and dad were in a quartet at church when
they were young and newly married. Well, my dad sang until he had been married
long enough to make my mom happy, then he quit. But my mom and aunts were singers.
And my sister and I sing and would like to sing together if we didn’t have
about 500 miles between us .I love the close harmony of four people singing
four different parts that come together to make beautiful sounds. I just love
it. And you can giggle all you want behind your hand but I’ve picked out quartet
people in heaven I want to sing with for about a thousand years or more.
I have been excited in my Bible study of Colossians
3:12. I have taken each word apart and….I won’t bore you with details of my
study but I’ve had southern gospel quartet close harmony fun.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones (*here are the group of singers,)
holy and beloved (*God loves the sound of :) compassionate hearts, kindness,
humility, meekness, and patience.
(*My own thoughts about the verse)
1. Compassionate
hearts: deep feelings of God’s love for someone’s difficulty or misfortune and understanding how God can
use you to help that individual
2. Kindness
(useful kindness): meeting real needs in God’s way, in His timing, by His
Spirit’s leading without any form of selfish greed or cruelty. It’s a word we
don’t really have in our language –this unselfish kindness with no ulterior
motives
3. Humility
and Meekness: gentle strength that begins with God’s inspiration and finishes
with submission to His direction and empowerment putting others before
ourselves
4. Patience:
waiting without fear, worry, stress, or anxiousness and staying steadfast in
our desire to please God with every action
When these spiritual character qualities come together…Well,
can you just imagine the harmony? When we put love, unselfish kindness, humility,
submission, and steadfast waiting on God together in one person all working in
that person at the same time…Well, stand back Bill and Gloria! (Only true
gospel quartet lovers will get this.) And when we put a group of God’s people
together all unified in these character qualities… Well, Gospel Singing Jubilee!
(I told you my roots run deep.)
This is the close harmony of God’s people living Godly
lives beside each other pointing a lost world to Jesus Christ. People with an understanding of God’s heart showing God’s heart to others. We are
to have these God given qualities all together as one harmonious sound that
reaches to the ends of the earth.
The
other name for this close harmony of God’s people is…
wait
for it …
His
Church
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