Do you ever find yourself humming a tune and wonder how you
started? For me, it is often the last song I heard on the radio, but
occasionally it has been a song I have not heard in a long time but is very
applicable to the moment. During a conversation this week, I hadn’t even
consciously recognized that I was feeling unsettled. But at that moment, I
found that I was singing in the background.
“My peace, I give to you. My peace, I give to
you. It’s a peace that this world cannot take away and in difficult times, it
won’t fade away. My peace, my peace, I leave with you.”
Or at work since Sydney
has been born, I have found myself humming,
“Lord I need You, oh, I need You.
Every hour I need you. My one defense, my righteousness, Oh God how I need
you.”
It is a cool reminder that our brains are wonderfully made, and perhaps
the Holy Spirit is working inside our subconscious and bringing encouraging
words to run in the background of our mind. Isaiah 30:21 reads, “And your ears
will hear a voice behind you saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it.’” I wrote
that verse on a notecard and had it on my bathroom mirror long enough that I
had memorized it without trying. It brings to life the common command in the
Bible that we not forget His words, that we write them on the tablet of our
hearts and on the doorframes of our houses. When we are faced with a challenge
or given an opportunity to have a spiritual conversation, the word of God that
we have written on our hearts can spill out. “For out of the overflow of the
heart, the mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45.
