I was always fond of singing. I Our school teacher formed a sort of amateur choir to assist in the singing, and I was a member. During the winter we also went to an evening meeting, and the teacher was anxious that we should sing there too, as a group. We were flattered by being told how well we sang.
On one of those occasions a man came from another place to address the meeting. After the opening hymn, he prayed for God’s blessing on the message. But he began his message by turning around to the singers and asking, “Do you ever sing lies to God?”
We were thunderstruck at that question. Then he explained by telling us it was as bad to sing lies as to tell them, and worse if we sang them to God. He said a person is guilty if he sings, “Happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away,” if he has not really had his sins washed away. Or if we sing “Christ for me,” when we do not want Him in our lives then we have sung a lie.
Some of the girls were angry and said they would not go back to sing there, but I felt what the man said was true. My sins came vividly before me and I realized that I was not only a lost sinner but I was sinning when I sang some of those hymns. I had no peace until I came as a sinner to the Saviour to receive His forgiveness.
“What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.” Psa. 116: 12,13.
ML 07/02/1967