5: The Stranger in Your Gates – Singing with Inspiration
Flipping through the new quarterly, there are a number of titles that have the word ‘love’ in them – Love, to Be Loved; To Love God; He First Loved Us; To Love the Lord Your God; to name just a few. Hence, I believe a wonderful hymn to devote to as a theme will be
Hymn 349 – God Is Love. Our first Memory Text says “for God is Love”, 1 John 4:8. As the book of Deuteronomy is the book of the covenant, it would also be good to add
Hymn 347 – Built On the Rock as verse four tells us of God ‘Making with us His covenant”.
Oh the joy of being able to have the Everlasting Covenant which we find in
Hymn 469 – Leaning On The Everlasting Arms of our Lord Jesus.
To help all the strangers, people we do not know, we find advice in
Hymn 584 – There’s a Spirit in the Air. We will be able to sing
Hymn 400 – I Come With Joy in which we read that “strangers now are friends.”
On Wednesday we are reminded of the weak and the poor for whom we are minister –
Hymn 373 – Seeking the Lost reflects this. We are to
Take Time to Be Holy – Hymn 500 to “Help those who are weak” (verse 1).
To encourage us to “grow in kindness to the weakest and most marginalized” (Thursday),
Hymn 414 – Fruitful Trees the Spirit’s Sowing will give us some ideas.
We are bound for The Promised Land! Hallelujah!! Come, Lord Jesus come – very soon.
Blessings for a wonderful week ahead.
To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/
Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing, but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”