5: Excuses to Avoid Mission – Singing with Inspiration
“God’s Mission – My Mission” consistently points us to our Gracious God and how He wishes us to portray what He has done for us. In response we will reach out to others:
Hymn 573 – I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go, Dear Lord, hence our theme hymn. This is in response to
So Send I You – Hymn 573.
Today we hear
So Send I You – Hymn 578 as much as Abraham and Jonah heard so long ago. May we make no excuses.
Unfortunately, Jonah had his fears, but we are able to
Give To The Winds Your Fears – Hymn 519 and ask God for
Peace, Perfect Peace – Hymn 463 and be given
Wonderful Peace – Hymn 466 rather than running away like Jonah did.
In the belly of the fish, Jonah “didn’t miss God’s message of love”, and so we will not miss God’s love:
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go – Hymn 76,
Hymn 77 O Love Of God Most Full and
Hymn 79 – O Love of God, How Strong and True! to name just a few beautiful hymns.
We are given great courage on Thursday:
Hymn 573 – I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go so we can
Give Of Your Best To The Master – Hymn 572 and
Hymn 623 – I Will Follow Thee. “We are to answer that call by submitting to His leadership, listening to hear His voice, and then choosing to obey whatever He tells us”:
Hymn 590 – Trust And Obey His calling.
Friday encourages us to be ever faithful:
Hymn 602 – O Brother, Be Faithful.
So, dear people, be encouraged to go forward so that we and all our friends and neighbors will be rejoicing
When We All Get To Heaven – Hymn 633.
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/Search 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.”