Why Do We Sing unto God?

 Why Do We Sing unto God?

 We should not only music with emotion and gladness, but we should also praise the Lord with our whole heart (labe 3820) as Psalm 9:1 “… I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works.”  In other words, it is all right to put yourself into the singing of God’s praise because that is one of the ways that we can give Him our best musical offering.  The word labe connotes with the intellect or mind.  The musicing that takes place in corporate worship need not be a sleepy, dull exercise if we follow the biblical pattern of engaging the mind and the intellect.

            The reason many people cannot sing with their whole heart and make melody in their heart is that they are not singing with the Spirit and with understanding (I Corinthians 14:15).  The reason they cannot sing in the Spirit with understanding is that they are not singing with grace in their hearts (Colossians 3:16).  The grace of God must be applied to the singer’s heart before he or she can sing with the whole heart unto God.  Without divine love in the heart, singing becomes as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal before God (I Corinthians 13:1).