Song Sunday

Music is so powerful. The lyrics and the elements they are set to can influence a person dramatically. I know music can lift me high or bring me low, encourage or discourage, bring me to tears or fill me with anger or other unlovely emotions. 

I am currently doing a ten-week study called True Woman 201: Interior Design by Mary A. Kassian and Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Each week is focused on an element of Biblical womanhood based on Titus 2. Week One's element is discernment. Discernment is so important. Discernment is right thinking and the apostle Paul tells us in Titus 2 that right thinking leads to right living. 

As children of God, right thinking can be measured by the Word of God. Discernment is not just given to us-it is something we have to develop and train ourselves to have. The Bible is our sound doctrine where we can find the answers for everyday life. 

Back to music being so powerful-I need to have discernment when it comes to what I listen to. Is it drawing me closer to God? Is it encouraging me to become more like Christ? Is it worshipful? Is the fruit of the Spirit being increased in me because of it? 

I have found that I can only listen to music that is grounded in Biblical truth and worship-filled. Anything else just makes me focus on myself and the temporal things of this world. Since the weekends go by way too fast, especially in the summer, I thought that I would share a song each week that would encourage and uplift and point us to God as we start each week. 

This week's song is called "First" by Lauren Daigle off her album How Can It Be. 

Before I bring my need 

I will bring my heart

Before I lift my cares

I will lift my arms

I wanna know You

I wanna find You

In every season

In every moment

Before I bring my need 

I will bring my heart 

And seek You

First 

I wanna seek You

I wanna seek You

First 

I wanna keep You 

I wanna keep You

First

More than anything I want, I want You

First 

Before I speak a word

Let me hear Your voice

And in the midst of pain

Let me feel Your joy

You are my treasure and my reward

Let nothing ever come before

I seek You 

Linking with Titus2Tuesday and MondaysMusings