“Speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:19).

Patricia and I have been using an out-of-print devotional by A. W. Tozer in our “together” time each morning. I want to pass on the one for today as an encouragement to those who are walking through a testing time.

Tozer: “It cannot be denied that the way of the cross is unpopular and that it may bring a measure of reproach upon those who take it. Learned historians talk of persecutions and religious wars, while, in the midst of all the gloom there were always those few who saw the Eternal City in full view and managed to almost walk on earth as if they had already gone to heaven. These were the joyous ones who got little recognition from the world of institutionalized religion, and might have gone altogether unnoticed except for their singing.

“UNSUNG BUT SINGING: This is the short and simple story of many today whose names are not known beyond the small circle of their own company. Their gifts are not many nor great, but their song is sweet and clear!

“John Milton lost his sight and mourned that loss in his third book of his Paradise Lost. But in spite of his affliction he refused to be desolate. If he could not see, he could still think and he could still pray. And like the nightingale he could sing in the darkness,
‘…as the wakeful bird sings in the dark, and in the shadowy corner hides, She tunes her nightly note.’
“We are never sure where a true Christian may be found–and a busy world may actually not even know he is there–except that they hear him singing!!”