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I know that God delights in music because according to scripture, His most perfect creature (before he was marred by sin) was Lucifer who was a musical being. I ask myself this question what is it in songs that moves God so much? We, human beings have been created to delight the soul of our creator. So, I guess we are mandated to sing. But most times we sing to the wrong person and even for the wrong reasons. As a person, I'm so into songs. Before I got born again, we had neighbors that loved to play loud, worldly music (Two members of that family eventually got born again so that has drastically reduced now. Thanks be to God). But for some strange reason, which I now discern as God calling me, I never fancied the songs. The noise irritated me, the words were 90% of the time meaningless, and even sometimes, what supposed to be sweet harmonious music turned out to be a big jumble of off-key and off-beat repetitions. I used to wonder what used to excite the people listening and ...

Something quite interesting happened earlier today while I was cooking lunch with my mom. The Holy Spirit, who I now see as the greatest chef in the entire universe having revealed Himself in this dimension to me, taught me some spiritual mysteries from the food I was preparing. He actually spoke to me through my mom, unknown to her. She had asked me to soak some dry cow skin overnight the day prior and I did this. So, as I began to clean the cow-skin, I realized it was soft. The Holy Spirit told me that spiritually too, this is what happens to whoever abides in Christ. The degree of you absorbing the likeness of Jesus is a function of the amount of time you spend in His presence. If I wanted the cow-skin to be crisp and slightly tough, I could have soaked it for just a few hours; If I wanted it soft, for a whole day; and if I had soaked it for, let me say, about a week, the cow-skin would surely have dissolved completely into the water - all by a natural law called osmosis. Dur...