he said we should be singing joyously in our spirit to the Lord always. He went on to say he has heard a lot of people singing out loud and they really should just stick to singing and praising the Lord in their spirit
We have a church member on the praise team who does not sound too well to the ears of us who sing with him. I had once thought that maybe someone should take him aside and be honest with him but I think God had a different plan.
There is a movie I saw called "The Legend of 1900" it has way too much profanity but otherwise good. It is the story of a baby born on a cruise ship and is found in a crate under a table after a 1900 New Year's eve party on the ship. He was raised on the ship by the crew. He was probably 10 years old and watched the piano player as they had dancing on the ship. He saw all the happy people dressed up and having a great time and he just became a natural. He sat at the piano in the middle of the night and woke up the ships Captain and many others as he played marvelously on the piano. He never had a single lesson - just picked it up.
He never left the ship. Later in life maybe in his late 20s he was encouraged to leave the ship in New York. He decided he would do that. Docked in the New York harbor, the man walked half way down the gang plank towards land then stopped and looked at New York from one end to the other. He turned around and went back on board...still never feeling dirt under his feet. He was asked why he came back on board ship. This is his explanation...
As I stood there looking at all those buildings and all those streets, it was like looking at God's piano. I could never play God's piano because it has too many keys. So I came back to what I know on this ship. (And of course on the ship he was a master at playing the piano.)
OK what does this have to do with singing horribly? Imagine God's piano, imagine all the notes it could possibly play and somewhere on those keys is a note for each of us. We may not like the sound we hear, the notes might be too high or too low or something we never heard but possibly to God's ears each of our voices is special and has a special sound that He loves.
Just my thought on the subject.
God bless all those who want to sing praises to our Lord,,,may God bless them all with perfect pitch
All our gifts aren't the same, some have the gift of singing - just not the practice to make it sound appealing.