As I woke to "What Sins Are You Talking About" , I begin to feel so very thankful for being a lover of gospel music over the years. I started to wonder what in the world would I be waking up too otherwise. I decided, that might be why most people consider me a morning person as I wake up, eager to get up, get going and in a good mood. It's hard not too when you wake hearing good old gospel songs and hymns.
I often joke, "I think their radio is broke." I say this when a song comes on and ... well I don't know how to describe it. Or someone drives by with loud music and you can't understand the words (unfortunately sometimes you can understand the words) . Or I will hear some music playing at the mall or somewhere else and I will kid about the radio being broke. Well, I remember the words of the old music school teacher many years ago telling me the definition of music is "sounds that are pleasing to the ear". I shouldn't have, but yesterday I said if I listened to some of this new music all the time, it may make my mind kind of insane and I may feel the need to loot and riot. Well to each his on, but I'm going to call the sounds that are pleasing to my ear as those good old gospel songs and hymns of old. Or sitting on my front porch and listening to the wind chime and the birds singing. Those are sounds that pleasing to my ear.
But what I would I wake up too? I'm thankful for all the songs I have heard or had he privilege to sing over all these years. Songs of God's love, songs of praise and worship, songs of thanks, songs of hope, songs of comfort, songs of joy, songs of God's promises. Just think about Sunday morning's parking lot service with Brother Roger leading in, "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder", "Standing On The Promises", "On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand", "Amazing Grace". I could listen to these songs all day long!
"What Sins Are You Talking About" is a song I use to love hearing the Speer Family sing. I believe it was written by Harold Lane and probably written in the mid 70"s. In my opinion it is a happy song with a powerful message of how we can be forgiven of our sins and once forgiven they are forgotten, cast into the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more. Now that's a forgiving God. I had not heard this song in a long time, so I hope you will enjoy hearing it with me this morning.
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