“The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV) The more I listen to and focus on being aware of God’s music in my heart, the better I feel.
God’s inner music is the joy and peace that I experience when I pay attention to and surrender my will to His presence around me and within me. The Bible describes it as “the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,” (Philippians 4:7) and “inexpressible and glorious joy.” (1 Peter 1:8) Those statements aren’t just words. I can personally testify that they are accurate descriptions of what it is like to truly be aware of God’s presence and love.
There are two primary ways that I become aware of God’s presence and hear Him “rejoicing over” me with singing. One is opening my heart to Him in quiet contemplation. The other is seeing Him working in amazing ways around me.
Here’s an example of the second way and how I experienced it yesterday. In the morning I wrote a blog post called: “Fear of Deception Can Be a Good Fear.” In the afternoon I received a book that I had ordered from Amazon called “The Harvest” which was written by Ignatius Brianchaninov, a Russian Orthodox monk and bishop who lived in the early 1800s.
When I randomly flipped it open it was on page 305. The chapter heading at the top of the page read, “How Deceptive Earthly Life Is!” I was amazed and was aware that that occurrence was too strange to be a coincidence. I realized that God was singing one of His songss over me and wanted me to read the book.
Then I opened it up at the beginning and almost everything I read was deeply touching my heart with God’s inner music. When I got to page 12 I read the phrases “What terrible deception!” and “Let no one deceive you,” and I heard an uplifting God song deep within in my heart.
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