When God Sings

This morning was just plain perfect.  I met my man at Starbuck's for a morning date with a little coffee and chatting.  After my love tank was pretty much full of a healthy mix of caffeine and affection, he decided to leave and in walks Miss Erica to send the love tank over the brim.  Erica and I decided to have us a little spontaneous girl date while she studied funny looking body parts for school and I studied Lamentations.  I am pretty sure I picked the most rewarding subject, although her pictures were quite gross fascinating.


One of my favorite set of verses is in Lamentations.  I think it is the only verse in the whole bible that talks about God singing.


It made me wonder what His voice sounds like. One of my most favorite voices is that of the man in the DVD "Love Comes Softly" actor Dale Midkiff. His voice is just plain tender. Not tender in a feminine way, but tender in a "I am the most compassionate man in the world and I have come to rescue you" kind of way. I think I could listen to that voice all day long.


It is probably wrong to think God's voice is even comparable to a human's, but I still wonder...if He were singing over me, just what would that sound like?


Here are the verses:


“14 Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil. 16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: ‘Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak. 17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing’” (ESV).


On this incredible text, C.H. Spurgeon said:


“I can understand a minister rejoicing over a soul that he has brought to Christ; I can also understand believers rejoicing to see others saved from sin and hell; but what shall I say of the infinitely happy and eternally-blessed God finding, as it were, a new joy in souls redeemed? This is another of those great wonders that cluster around the work of divine grace! … The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, imperfect though they be. He sees them as they are to be, and so he rejoices over them, even when they cannot rejoice in themselves. When your face is blurred with tears, your eyes red with weeping, and your heart heavy with sorrow for sin, the great Father is rejoicing over you. The prodigal son wept in his Father’s bosom, but the Father rejoiced over his son. We are questioning, doubting, sorrowing, trembling; and all the while he who sees the end from the beginning knows what will come out of the present disquietude, and therefore rejoices. Let us rise in faith to share the joy of God.” (sermons from 1837, #1990)


If you are waiting quietly for Him with expectation and prayer, He is singing over you. If you are trusting even though it seems like you don't have a reason to, He is singing over you. If you are returning to Him after a long drought of doing things on your own, He is singing over you.


He personally delights in you and one day you will hear Him audibly sing a love song over you.

Not to cheapen God and compare Him to man, but if you could pick any voice to be the voice of God, who would it be?

(And don't say Charlton Heston!)