21 Days of Prayer - Day 18

My Rebecca, age 2, 1983

"Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob. Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and harp. Blow the ram's horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!" (Psalm 81:1-3)

           In Psalm 81, Asaph calls percussion, stringed, and wind instruments into symphonic praise of Elohiym - Almighty Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit. Have you ever stopped to consider that, at creation, God placed an orchestra within each one of us - percussion hands, stringed vocal chords, and wind or breath of life - so that we might praise Him? Mankind was designed to give glory to God in the good times and in the difficult ones.
           Today, my baby girl is 500 miles away from her mother's arms in a bitter-cold city buried under snow, and she's very sick. What's a mother to do?!?!? 
                                         
                                         Praise God!!!

            Care to join me? It's what you were made for!

"Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even thought the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights!" (Habakkuk 3:17-19)