Your New Year’s Assignment
This week my Bible study lesson asked if we’d ever written a song of praise to God and suggested we try it. I have occasionally composed songs, but it had been a long time. I thought, Wouldn’t it be nice if we all started the New Year off by singing our own personal, handwritten song of praise to God? You don’t have to be a poet or a professional writer. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I believe all that matters to God is that it comes from the heart.
You can write a song about your life, like I wrote, or a song of praise for what has happened in the past year. Psalm 96:1-2 encourages us to “Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth. Sing to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.” God loves for us to sing to him!
Are you ready? If you pen a song of praise to God, we’d love to feature it on The Pearls of Promise website. Send it to: lisabworley@pearlsofpromiseministries.com. In the meantime, here’s the Christian country song that I wrote about my life:
Daddy’s Girl
by Lisa Burkhardt Worley
You saw me from a distance.
Your heart went out to me.
A child who knew no father,
Who needed love so free.
You asked me to embrace you.
To lay my life in your hand,
And ever since that day I knew,
When weak I’d always stand.
(CHORUS)
I’m a daddy’s girl.
The apple of my Abba’s eye.
His love is so complete,
He holds me when I cry.
I’m a daddy’s girl.
I never need to fear,
Because my Abba walks
With me throughout each passing year.
I’m older now but I still need
A dad to guide the way,
When troubles come, I know to go
To my father who will say:
Dear daughter, don’t you worry,
I have your life on my road map.
And then I trust my Abba dad
And crawl into his lap.
(CHORUS)
I’m a daddy’s girl.
The apple of my Abba’s eye.
His love is so complete,
He holds me when I cry.
I’m a daddy’s girl;
I never need to fear,
Because my Abba walks
With me throughout each passing year.