March 3, 2022 - This coming Sunday morning our church will sing a new song, one that we've never sung together before. It's called "House of the Lord" and it's filled with truth and joy. The Contemporary Christian songwriter, Phil Wickham, composed the song in 2020 - during the height of the pandemic - during a time when we weren't allowed to meet in the house of the Lord. And joy was in short supply, as well.
Wickham, however, was inspired by the fact that the house of the Lord is not necessarily a building, not just a place made by hands. The house of the Lord is wherever God is. And if you're a child of God, He makes His home . . . in you! Your spirit, your heart is the house of the Lord. And where God is, there is joy - even when life is at its most challenging.
I hope you'll be able to attend church this Sunday, inside of a sanctuary or worship center - assembled with the family of God for praise and teaching and fellowship. But, even if you cannot "assemble yourselves together" (Hebrews 10:25), you can still experience the joy of the Lord, and you can celebrate that He lives in you.
We worship the God who was. We worship the God who is.
We worship the God who evermore will be.
He opened the prison doors. He parted the raging sea.
Our God, He holds the victory.
There's joy in the house of the Lord. There's joy in the house of the Lord today.
And we won't be quiet. We shout out Your praise.
There's joy in the house of the Lord. Our God is surely in this place.
And we won't be quiet. We shout out Your praise!
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
