The following article is part of a continuing series on "Ah-Ha! Moments" in the Bible.

I love ah-ha moments. I expect them literally every time I read from the Word. You see, God is not like man when it comes to what He says. Or, I should say, not like me. He doesn’t waste His words. So every book, every chapter, every verse, every word of His Word has been spoken and then written for a purpose.

Would you like to explore one of those ah-ha moments with me now?

Oh, if I Could Only Sing

I’ve always wanted to be able to sing or — at the very least — to be able to sing well, but the fact of the matter is, I can’t. Oh sure, sometimes I can hum a little. Once I even did well enough to have a professional say, “Hey, you sing pretty well!”

Truth of the matter is, I don’t. Never have and probably never will. I did manage to sneak into my elementary school’s Glee Club (in 7^th Grade), literally slipping in the appropriate classroom after a fire drill, totally unnoticed by the teacher or any of the other students. But that’s another story for another article.

I also sang in our youth choir at church, which was — like the Glee Club — filled with enough good singers that my off-key voice could not be detected. We sang for the Easter pageant and Christmas cantata, our tunes echoing against the high ceilings and bouncing off the stained glass windows of our church, finally coming to rest on the red velvet altar cushions.

This Was My Bethlehem’s Field

This was where I attended Sunday school at 10:00, where — in the sanctuary at 11:00 — I sat on hard pews between my mother and father with my brother next to one of them. This is where I stood as tall as my frame would allow with a hymnal spread across my palms, and lifted up a joyful “noise” unto the Lord. This was where I attended VBS in the summer months and MYF in my teen years.