No Words…Just a Song
By Karen Crommett
One early morning, the Lord had me get up to worship at 5:00 a.m. As it was still the dark watch of the night, the man leading worship commented on how all of us must be crazy to be out in the cold at that time in the morning! We laughed, and yet as I leaned in, I heard a deeper truth that God spoke to my heart in those quiet hours. “This is what you were created for...worship!”
What the world would think of as strange or too extravagant felt as if my heart had actually arrived home.
To start with, there is really no way to express the pure joy that comes from worshipping with others. As a fellow worshipper said, it was like, “a silver thread of unity between us.” We sang, we jumped for joy, and we were really just one voice pouring our praise to our King.
The only word that best summarizes David’s Tent for me is Undone.The things I thought were a priority before, or the way I had been doing things, were being reordered profoundly, in unison with what I already knew to be true.
We would end the weekend with over the top worship led by Jaye Thomas. At one point, he just declared, “There are no words!” Here we had been singing for 72 hours, yet there were still no adequate words to describe the beauty and majesty and holiness of our God! Amen to that!
I said I was forever changed by going to David’s Tent, but I still didn’t know what that would look like. Now I know. Every night since David’s Tent, the Lord has awoken me in the wee hours of the morning. And His words to me have been: “SING!”
Now mind you, I do not have a great signing voice, nor have I ever felt compelled to sing prayers before. But this is now my new normal.I sang for my neighbors’ daughter who is ill, I sang for my friends who don’t know the Lord, and after my retina tore two days after David’s Tent, I sang for renewed vision from God.
Somehow, now it seems the most normal thing I could be doing. The week of David’s Tent, Lauren spoke of William Carey and how singing got him through the darkest days of his life. It reiterates the gentle words from the Lord to me that chilly morning as we worshipped Him: “This is what you were created for!”
So I’m leaning in to worship; I’m leaning into praise. Be the only melody of my heart, God. No words…just a song.