November 5, 2019 – 2 Chronicles 29:27
As the offering began, singing to the Lord began also.
—2 Chronicles 29:27
It is not till the burnt offering begins that we ever hear a single strain of music.34 Every human life has got its shadow, and every human life has got its cross. It is well to distinguish the shadow from the cross, lest by confusing them we go astray. For the shadow is something into which we enter and out of which we will pass in God’s good time. But the cross is something that we must take up, or stumble over into the mouth of hell. Now one of the deepest questions in life is, “In what way do you regard your crosses?” Do you hate them? Do you rebel against them? Would you give anything to fling them from you? Along that road there is no voice of song. Along that road there is the hardening heart. Along that road there is a growing bitterness, the foretaste of the bitterness of death. But take up your cross, as Jesus bids you do—take it up as a mother takes her child. Lay it against your heart and cherish it—say “This, too, like the summer roses, is from God.” And so this is how your poor life will become a harmony—and what is harmony but perfect music—and when the burnt offering begins, the song of the Lord will begin also.
—George H. Morrison
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