This is your hallelujah day

Luke 18:43 “Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they gave praise to God”

What is a hallelujah, where does it come from and to what end is it sent out from our lips? Hallelujah is a weapon of warfare. It threatens the very worldview of Satan, it is divine chaos that upsets his demonic applecart. Jesus’ disciples are the hallelujah people because it is in His name that demons are evicted, sicknesses are healed, snakes are turned into rods and the kingdoms of the world are turned into the kingdoms of our God and of his Messiah.

In the Hebraic worldview, thoughts are not values and the idea never exists alone by itself without corresponding action. In the world of Moses, Jesus and Paul, a thought may be based on a value (eg, there is now no condemnation, all things work together, we’ve been made more than conquerors, nothing can separate us….) but without the action of God (sending the only begotten, the death of the Lamb, the empty tomb, baptism of the Spirit, etc) no one could know exactly what was in the Father’s mind.

In other words, God is not a personal God until he shows up in the Christmas manger. God is not a God of love until he dies on the Roman cross. God is not all-knowing until the Spirit is shed abroad in the sinner’s hearts, God is not all-wise until the secrets of our hearts are laid bare, God is not omnipresent until our bodies are made whole, God is not patient until our sins are forgiven us.

The gospel of Messiah is not spam, an imposition from the outside to manipulate the foolish. The law of Messiah is true freedom, from the inside out, renovating broken hallelujahs and restoring a symphony of praise that was lost but now found. This is the “musick and dancing” that had returned to the ranch.

The hallelujah people sing with broken praise but they sing. Singing itself strikes a very human chord. Pray when you are worried, sing when you are happy. The song is an extension of the amazing range of emotions that fills the senses. Thus, singing is an act of faith in the God who cares. We love because He first loves us. We can sing because singing is an invention of a heart that has been touched at the core and rises to proclaim that a new day has come, your hallelujah day.