Proper “Sacred Love Songs”

Sweeter than spring time

Purer than sunshine

Ever my song will be

Jesus, You're beautiful to me.

– Cece Winans (“Jesus You’re Beautiful”

“Sacred Love Songs” are a compilation of poetic and romantic songs by several well-known Gospel artists produced by the venerable Bishop T.D. Jakes to provide Believers with songs with which they can express their romantic feelings to their spouses in a wholesome, godly way.

In a literal sense, that’s what our worship songs already are; they are love songs written and sung to our sacred Redeemer and Lord. Indeed, some worship lyrics, if taken out of context, will make great wooing ballads.

And just like our secular romantic odes, much of what we say are either meaningless or even insulting; if taken literally. When a guy tells a lady, “You’re the sugar in my tea; the butterfly in my stomach, the cure to my pain…” she knows he’s not been literal and is only trying to express his love.

Likewise, when we sing to God, “You’re  as bright as the morning star” or “Your love is as everlasting as the Hills” He doesn’t strike us dead for such an insulting comparison, or remind us that hills don’t really last forever. The angels don’t do a face palm when we meaninglessly tell Jesus that He’s “sweeter than springtime,” and “purer than sunshine.” Even the Psalms are full of such literary devices.  (But seriously Cece, “purer than sunshine?”)

Nevertheless, even in romantic expressions, care needs to be taken that the lines of propriety are not crossed. Our words have to be properly worded. And as is the physical, so also is the spiritual. We must worship God exactly and precisely. Heb 13:15 says we should offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips.

You’ll observe that the worship lyrics in the New Testament show less floridity and more precision – less comparisons of God’s love to natural phenomena and more exactness in their description of who God is and what He’s done. That’s the kind of worship that’s holy, acceptable and reasonable to God. (Rom 12:1).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN