After the hush of winter, something I always look forward to every summer is the cricket concerts in the evenings and on through the night. Somehow those ugly little beetles make the most heavenly sounds.
I sit on my porch in the dark and listen as the music surrounds me. The moonlight, stars and silhouettes of the trees add to the romance of sound. The crescendo rises and falls and seems to twinkle with the starlight.
I listen and I hear God say in my soul, “What do you hear?”
“Little bugs making beautiful noises.”
“What else do you hear?”
I think. “I hear harmonies and melodies. I hear short chirps and long notes.”
“What else do you hear?”
What is God asking me?
As I thought more about the songs gently soothing my ears, it occurred to me that the crickets do not have to read music, play instruments or do anything to work this up. They do what comes naturally. They do what God has designed them to do.
And what has God designed them to do? To worship Him; simply and beautifully, without effort because He made them that way; they sing to the glory of God.
We are made to give glory to God, too: without effort and simply because He made us this way.
His ears are attuned to the music we sing to Him and to all other talents He put into us. We worship Him the way He designed each of us to do.
The stars and moonlight twinkle along with our worship and God is glorified in His creation!
“Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation say continually, ‘The Lord be magnified!’” Psalm 40:16.
You skillfully set the mood, you invite me into your private conversation, then into the wider truth. I will think differently about crickets from now on!