May 21, 2013 - Unbutton My Lips

I love the way The Message reads and I love the freshness of this language: "Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise." Psalm 51:7-15 (MSG) Have you experienced this type of praise? I don't know about you, but being healthy unbuttoned my lips and caused my heart to sing anthems to God. I spent many years singing the dirge, today my heart rejoices in health. I don't know where you are on this journey with me, but God has given us a clean bill of health. That, dear friends, is worth a shout of praise. Everyday God's best plan brings life to us and we should fight with every fiber of this body to embrace His gift of life. I wonder if there are things in your life today you could honestly say are not praise worthy nor do they cause you to celebrate good health? Maybe they need a scrubbing? No one upon this earth has given each of us what God has. Let my life, your life, our healthy lives be unbuttoned and display for all to see that we are FREE. God has given us a fresh start. How shall we use it? Stop and re-read this verse and smile - you know you want to. PK