PREAMBLE
Psalms 150:6 ''Let everything that breathes sing praises to the LORD! Praise the LORD!'' New Living Translation.
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I always feel guilty whenever I stumble into the above Bible verse, because I know that I was and still is a victim of not praising God as I should. By the special grace of God, I have been saved by Christ Jesus and for years now I have been serving him in the choir department/ministry as a choir member for many years, and have also been going through training process coupled with different rehearsal sessions handled by my Choir Leaders who we call Director.
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Hence, about four years ago, having served under two choir Directors, one of them who is my Mentor, I was saddled with the responsibility of leading the choir as a Director, Praise God(Hallelujah). So today, I would say that, by God's special grace, I am the incumbent Choir Director in my Church and praise leader too. Let me hold it right there before my ego misleads me, because essence of this post is not to introduce myself or talk about my achievements, but rather to point out the mistakes that most people make including me, which hinders our quest in making Christ known to the world and in the process win souls to Christ Jesus.
Like I had said earlier, I am a victim, because my spirit (conscience) pricked me few days ago when I boarded a bus to Delta state to see my ex-corp members who God had help secure a job after their one year compulsory service to their country Nigeria. The Journey should last at about 4 hours or 3 hours 30 minutes, depending on the drivers speed control and focus. There in the bus which departed from the park like 30 mins, a young man introduced himself and admonished that he wants our attention and cooperation so we could together commit the journey into God's hands. "Okay!' I certainly had no problems with that but I suddenly become wearied and even lost interest immediately he raised a praise song. "This is not a church for crying out Loud, Just pray and let us continue the journey in peace",I said in my heart. This was actually the genesis of my praise-less guilt experience. I must confess that it wasn't a very good experience so I plead you to be a praiser and not a complainer.
I would have loved to narrate the whole story here but please be patient with me because doing so may make reading boring and I may loss your interest just as some of my readers have observed from my previous posts.
Stay turned for the continuation of my experience in my next post.
A very happy weekend to you all @steemchurch, @sc-n and @christian-trail. God Bless you