What The Heart Needs

The piano tuner made his annual visit this week. For more than fifty years, he's been returning strings to their best and sweetest sounds. I've concluded piano-tuning is an art, and I'm so grateful for this Godly man who has knowledge, experience and a keen ear for the right sounds. The psalmist wrote, "Revive and refresh me according to Your word" (Psalm 119:25 AMP). I know all too well how my heart loses its best sound. The writer  describes the languish of his soul and how it grows weak and his eyes fail (V.81-82), but he knows how it is brought back to life: "According to Your steadfast love refresh me and give me life, so that I may keep and obey the testimony of Your mouth." (V.88 AMP). Hearts out-of-tune lead to troublesome times but what great news that it need not be so. God forgives and His Word renews and refreshes. We sing it like this: "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing; tune my heart to sing Thy grace - Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise - Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above - Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love!" Time in The Word with The Father is exactly ... what the heart needs.