Free To Sing

Last Sunday was the 2nd mass at our residence, Royal Palm. We finally have our very own choir. It's a choir made up of people with different backgrounds. There's a lawyer, a businessman, a missionary, a house help, a security guard, and other types of professions. Different people with one common love: singing for God.

When we come before the Lord face to face, I don't think we will be asked of our education degrees, bank account, profession, or social status. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.(2 Cor. 5:10)" We will come before the Lord and be asked about the good we have done while on earth.

In the eyes of God, we are all His children, given the gift of free will. We are free to serve Him, love Him, honor Him...sing for Him. Some interpret freedom as a breakout from discipline and virtue, but what this type of freedom will really do to us is put us in bondage. "For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1).

Last Sunday, we were free to sing our hearts out to God. At that point we were all His children, trying to please our Father in Heaven with a humble offering of our praises. We could have chosen not to serve Him, we had that free will. But it is in choosing to serve Him that we have experienced true joy.