Glorious June
June 1, 2009
by Sandi Sanford
Yesterday I woke up with a song in my heart. “I was created to make your praise glorious!” I felt alive and refreshed. But how could I praise Him like that? I am by nature retiring and shy. I think. Doesn’t God use singers and dancers and big voices to make His praise glorious? I thought so.
The Lord recently gave me a love for digging into and searching His word. It will not return void, as the scripture says (Isaiah 55:11). I find that as I go deeper, He goes deeper. When I focus my day on praise and studying the Word, in the midst of whatever I am doing, I find a lighter more hopeful me peeking out from behind the piles of laundry and dirty dishes. In my real life, I have real life!
When I fill my day with re-runs, comfort food, and the depressing news on TV, I am easily and quickly rundown. There are distractions everywhere. I am learning I don’t have to give them my attention.
I feel like the Lord is showing me He made me the way I am, and placed me exactly where I am. In any music there are the loud notes, the soft sounds, and the pauses in between. We each have a place in the song.
So behind my laptop computer, here in my dining room, with the kids napping and the rain coming down, I am praising Him, gloriously.
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