Better Than A Hallelujah

“Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life.”     Romans 6:13

 

 

Sabbath morning sunrise peaked across the hill and spread its rays over the waiting cars in the parking lot.  I sat behind the steering wheel watching the view, waiting for the bus that would take my baby and I away for the day for a women’s church retreat.  Still catching my breath from the whirlwind of the last few minutes as I had dressed my sleeping baby, gathered our things, and slipped away from the rest of my sleeping family. 

Uncomfortable in the stillness of the new day, I flipped on the radio to K-LOVE.  What I heard first brought tears to my eyes and prepared me for a day of blessing.  Amy Grant’s Better Than a Hallelujah.  I felt so vulnerable as I recognized God’s sweet message to me.  I imagined Jesus looking at me.  He saw my real life, my sleepless nights, my frantic days and accepted the muddy acknowledgements of His Kingship in my life as lovely praise.  In fact, the song indicates that sometimes He likes these better than the polished presents I think He’d favor.

With grateful tears streaming inside the walls of my heart I entrusted myself anew to my Maker and my King.  The bus arrived and Nathan and I joined expectant women who were eager to hear a word of hope from God that Sabbath.  We were not disappointed.

“God has no need for graven altars,

Vast cathedrals or crowded pews—

The sanctuary God loves best

Is a surrendered heart that He can use.”

B. J. Hoff

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