Power!

Monday, January 11, 2010 (6:20 a.m.)

Most Amazing God of Glory,

Thank You. Thank You that during all of the restlessness that made up my night, ♫Hallelujah to the Lord of heaven and earth♫ kept singing in my mind. Of course I jumped to the conclusion that we would be talking here about the word ‘hallelujah’ - meaning ‘praise God’ - or even the song itself.

Nope. You keep reminding me not to continue trying to put You into a box of my own understanding. Yes, it’s taken over 40 minutes for me to recognize the “Power!” behind the singing of that song throughout the night.

I knew it was You Lord. Every time my mind would start to consider this thought or that concern ♫Hallelujah to the Lord of heaven and earth♫ jumped right in. Thank You Lord!

Reading in Revelation (17-19:6) of “what sounded like the shouting of a huge crowd, or like the waves of a hundred oceans crashing on the shore, or like the mighty rolling of thunder, ‘Praise the Lord. For the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns’” I realized I was seeking more.

A lesson in our Psalty (the Singing Songbook) Bible made reference to Psalm 47 where I found the words to ♫Singalongathon♫ that mentioned the word ‘maranatha’ which I looked up on the internet. All these years after having first come across the word (again because of Psalty the Singing Songbook) I discovered that it “is an Aramaic phrase occurring once only in the New Testament” (and only in a few translations at that!). “It is transliterated [using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language] into Greek letters rather than translated”. It is only found in 1 Corinthians 16:22 (in not many versions) and when translated means either “Our Lord, come!” “Our Lord has come” or “Come, O Lord”.

This of course started me singing ♫Come, Lord Jesus, come♫. Which somehow tied into ♫My God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save♫. That led me to think of the Power! You have to save. The Power! You use to change hearts and minds, even in the middle of a somewhat sleepless night.

Dearest Lord God, how I thank You for Your Power! Please use it in me this day. I love You. Amen.

(375 words ~ 7:39 a.m.)