2 Chronicles 5: One Voice of Praise

The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.” Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud,  and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. -2 Chron.. :513-14 NIV

Oh, how I wish we could experience what Israel experienced the few times that they became one voice in praising God.  Can you imagine what would happen today if our worship was such that the churches suddenly filled with a cloud and the preachers were unable to go any further.  Surely, we have the instruments, we have the voices, but something is missing.  Our worship today is too choreographed and, too self-centered on the individual experience for the instruments and voices to unite as one in praise and thanks to the Lord.  Our songs are not those that would invite the cloud of the Lord either.  They are too filled with "I" and "my" and "me" to ever let praise and thanksgiving escape. 

It's not complicated, it's not difficult to sing praise, because in truth, "He is good; his love endures forever."  That is all we need to concentrate on.  We don't have to beg for the Spirit to fall, we don't need to cry for our eyes to be opened.  We just need to praise and exalt the Lord with hearts that really mean it, with hearts that acknowledge that "He is good; his love endures forever."