TUNE MY HEART TO SING THY GRACE

The title of this writing is taken from a beautiful Hymn written in 1758 entitled, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing." As I was contemplating the words, that particular line stuck in my spirit... "tune my heart to sing thy grace". 

One of the worst sounds to a musician is an untuned instrument. It almost makes your whole body cringe with repulsion. Time must be taken to perfectly tune an instrument. An ear of a person in training can actually be harmed attempting to sing along with an untuned instrument.

So, as I was thinking on these words, I asked the question, "Lord, Fount of every blessing, how do I tune my heart to sing your grace?" The first thing that came to my mind was a Proverb I had read earlier in the week and was committing to memory. It is Proverbs 1:23: "If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you." The very first thing you do is repent. You turn away from sin and turn to the Lord. That is the first step in understanding His amazing Grace. It is only by Grace through Faith that you can be saved. Then when the Fount pours out his blessings, there is nothing to block the flow and he can make his words and his ways known to you. 

With any instrument, there is not just one tuning. The same goes for our hearts. I John 1:9 is one of the most comforting scriptures in the Bible. "If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." You don't just come once for that tuning. As, we walk through this life, we will sin and miss the mark periodically or there wouldn't be so much written about discipline and correction. We have to keep that flow from the Fountain clear of debris. When the Holy Spirit points our attention to something that is blocking that life giving water from reaching our hearts, we need to instantly turn and give that blockage to him. His heart's desire is to touch our hearts fully so that we can and will "sing his grace". We don't have to wait and allow the dam to build up, we can remove the obstruction in an instant by just speaking his name, Jesus, and believing with all our heart that what he says, he will do.

Ephesians 5:18 tells us to "be filled with the Spirit". Another way of translating that is, "be being filled with the Spirit". We come continually to the Fountain to be filled to overflowing. We come continually to have our hearts tuned, aligned with the heart of the Father. When you listen to finely tuned instruments being played in the Spirit, tears are brought to your eyes periodically as the harmonies touch your heart strings. It is unexplainable. There is a purity in the interpretation. This is what we should seek in inviting our Creator and Master Musician to "tune our hearts".

As we all, His blood bought, born again children allow ourselves to be tuned perfectly to His heart, the most incredible song of His Grace will be heard in unity through us to the World. That is my prayer, that of Ephesians 4:13: "...until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." A little further in this chapter, we read of the whole Body growing up into the Head, which is Christ and working together and building itself up in Love.

This World in which we live is sick and dying. We are here to point the way to that Fount of Every Blessing, Jesus Christ. The more we allow him to tune our hearts to his own and become one Heaven sent, Spirit created Song of Grace, the lost and dying can experience that tugging of their heart strings to repent and turn to His Glorious Majesty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Will you allow yourself to be tuned along with me today?

Let us together sing this wonderful "song of Grace": "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:4-9 ESV.