One Day (There Will Be Healing)Sample

WORSHIP AND REMEMBER

I’m a worship pastor at my local church, and I truly love the work I do there. There is one task, however, that I always dread: playing music for a funeral. Don’t get me wrong, I’m honored to serve in that way, but funerals are just hard for everyone.  When I was younger, the funerals I went to typically had old pre-recorded songs playing, but in recent years I’ve seen a new trend in the church. Often, funerals are now worship services with congregational singing. Recently, I was asked to lead worship at a funeral, and the family gave me a list of songs they wanted led. I must’ve had a surprised look on my face when I saw that most of the songs were up-tempo and celebratory, because one family member quickly explained, “We want people to really worship, so they’ll remember God is good even now.” That hit me like a ton of bricks. And they were right. At such a time, what people need most is to remember all that God is and all that God has done.  

Worship is powerful. That’s why we see David write so many psalms of praise from a place of hardship, like “Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. . . forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases” (Psalm 103). In Psalms 34 David writes, “I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be on my lips.” When David faced trials, he worshipped, because he wanted to remember all the times God has seen him through before, and he wanted to look forward to God’s salvation and healing with eager expectation. 

Paul instructs believers to do the same thing in Romans 8:18. He says, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed.” In other words, though this world causes us suffering and pain, one day soon God will show us so much healing and joy that all of our temporary trials here on earth will seem small in hindsight. I’m clinging to that promise, and worship helps me remember it.

Worship puts things in perspective. When we worship God, we see Him more clearly, and then we see ourselves and our circumstances more clearly in turn. We remember that the same God who was faithful in the good times will be faithful in the hard times. My prayer for you today is that you would choose to lift a song of praise to God from the middle of your circumstances. He is with you. And He is, and will forever be, faithful.  

“Hallelujah, there will be healing from this heartbreak we’ve been feeling.”

-lyrics from “One Day” by Cochren & Co.