Time Out For The Same Old Song
Acts 3:17-21 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance [not
aware of what you were doing], as did your rulers also. 18 Thus
has God fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His
Christ (the Messiah) should undergo ill treatment and be afflicted and
suffer. 19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn
around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out,
wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat,
of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And
that He may send [to you] the Christ (the Messiah), Who before was designated and
appointed for you—even Jesus, 21 Whom heaven must receive [and
retain] until the time for the complete restoration of all that God spoke by
the mouth of all His holy prophets for ages past [from the most ancient time in
the memory of man].
During the Holiday season I was
watching a movie, entitled “Fred Clause.”
There was a part in the movie when Fred went to work for his brother who
was Santa Claus; while at the North Pole only one song was played all day which
was “Here Comes Santa Claus.” Day after
day this song played, as Fred worked in the workshop for his brother. One day that “same old song,” struck a nerve
with him and he found himself over in the disc jockey booth hemming up the elf
who was the disc jockey, and binding him up and placing him in a closet and
then turning the channel to something new, something fresh.
This
morning I kept hearing the words tired of the same old song, and that clip flashed
before me. As I meditated on this, I
heard this is how we sound to God every time we tell Him we are going to change
and that we are going to submit to His will, and go where He has asked us and do
what it is that He has asked us to do and then we still maintain the same
posture, the same attitude, and the same wrong thinking and doing that results
from that thinking. Every time we say to
God I will do better, if you will just get me out of this, and God blesses us
and delivers us and we go back to that same behavior and same bad habits that
got in trouble to begin with. God hears
the same old song being sung, until one day, He grows tired of the sound of
song, that has produced nothing but empty promises and lack of submission to
His word and His way and God get up and leaves the room, allowing things to
enter our lives, to bring about change, and repentance. Just as when people make empty promises to
us, or we learn that their words are unreliable that we adopt an attitude of indifference
and we may listen but we do not give those words credence because we have heard
them before. We can’t stand it when people
do these things to us, then why in the world do we do God that way?
How
long is that record of promises to change been playing in your life as it
concerns God? How long have we made
promises to God about doing more, being better and coming into alignment that we
have not followed through with? Just as
we don’t like the same old song being played in our lives or towards us, we
need to act towards God the way we want to be treated. Don’t make empty promises, and speaking what
we think God wants to hear with no intention of follow through. It is time to allow our words to be a sweet
smelling savor unto the Lord and not something that turns the stomach of God,
or causes His ears to hurt from the same old song being sung. It is time to change the channel, change our
song and become sincere in our pursuit of God, no more empty promises. “Sing unto the Lord a new song!”
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