Song of Redeeming Love

By Larry Doyle Crenshaw

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There are sacred sanctifying moments wherein we experience the lifting and removal of a heavy burden from our lives.  It matters not the nature of the burden, whether it be the weight of sin, the pain and suffering of disease, recovery from financial pressures, or reclaiming the loss of a damaged relationship.  

In these moments, not only is the burden lifted, but with the lifting, we too are lifted up, filled with the Spirit – sometimes to overflowing.  In such moments we feel to sing what others have called the “Song of Redeeming Love.”  In such moments of personal salvation we often feel an overwhelming desire for the welfare of others.  We want them to feel what we feel, to experience what we experience.  We want them to “sing” the chorus with us.

These redemptive experiences change our heart, expand our mind, and enlarge our soul.  Our senses are magnified and multiplied so that we feel more deeply and our thoughts are lifted upward toward God.  Would that these occasions might be more frequent, more constant, and last longer.

In truth, the music is always playing.  It is of celestial origin.  It is only when we attune ourselves through the atonement that we can hear the music and feel inclined to give voice to redemption’s song.  In this sense, the “a-tone-ment” becomes a process by which we attune ourselves to hear redemptive tones and lend our voice to the “Song of Redeeming Love.”  We do so because we become willing to attune our heart, mind, and soul so that they resonate to the celestial tones of faith, repentance, covenant living, and the voice of the Spirit.

This week’s meditation encourages us to get ourselves in tune with the message of God’s word and receive God’s redeeming grace that we may all sing together the “Song of Redeeming Love.”

Song of Redeeming Love

And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now? Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever…. Chapter 26: 12-14 Behold, how many thousands of our brethren has he loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought to sing redeeming love, and this because of the power of his word which is in us, therefore have we not great reason to rejoice?   Yea, we have reason to praise him forever, for he is the Most High God, and has loosed our brethren from the chains of hell.

Book of Mormon   Alma 5:26; 26:12-14

With a mighty change of heart

We sing the song of redeeming love

   Ready, willing and eager to impart

Glory and praise to God above

The power of His word in us

Gives hope and reason to rejoice

When in Him we place our trust

We give redemption’s song a voice

In His strength we can do every thing

Even mighty miracles can be wrought

When the song of redeeming love we sing

His blood redeems and we are bought

Let us the bonds of sin’s captivity sever

For Christ has loosed the chains of hell

May we sing His redeeming song forever

And in His kingdom forever dwell

Larry Doyle Crenshaw