Piece of Pie

I am blessed enough to have had the opportunity to be in attendance at David Crowder's "Fantastical" conference in Waco Texas this weekend. The main theme of the conference is "Church Music" and more specifically "Why do we sing?" In brief, the reason why we sing is because God has a song and He puts a song in us. And our natural reaction, as followers of Christ, should be to sing that song with all of our heart. But to go farther, the question would be why God chose singing, above say screaming, talking or anything other form of noise. There have been different breakout sessions that have been really awesome--I listened to a guy named Bob Kauflin, you should check him out. 


But all that aside the last thing that stuck with me on the day happened about an hour ago. John Mark McMillan was performing at the front end of a night-cap concert. During his most popular song (How He Loves) he said something that has permeated through my soul since:


"In the Bible it says that we are his portion. That means we His piece of pie."


We are His portion--His prize. We don't need to be any taller; any thinner; any smarter. He loves us the way we are. He loves us and He gives us a song. No matter where we are, where we have been, who we are or who we have been we have a song. 


He filled us with love. We are his chosen piece of pie. The least we can do is worship in response to that overwhelming love.