In His Time

Something funny happened in the worship set a couple weeks ago. We were singing the classic song “In His Time”. The lyrics:

In His Time

In His time
In His time
He makes all things beautiful in His time

Lord please show me every day
As You’re teaching me Your way
That You do just what you say
In Your time

In Your time
In Your time
You make all things beautiful in Your time

Lord my life to You I bring
May each song I have to sing
Be to You a lovely thing
In Your time

I think you all know it. Anyway, we were singing it, and at the end the leader repeated the last part. The thing is, he started with the wrong line: “May each song I have to sing” while singing the notes that belong to “Lord my life to You I bring”. The thing is, you can’t tell right away that anything is wrong, and it kind of fits. Try it out in your mind. But then you finish “Be to you a lovely thing” and then you realize musically it’s not done but you’ve run out of words. So the entire congregation and worship team just kind of had to mumble out something as they finished the song. Maybe it’s just me, but it was really amusing. Just, all of a sudden you realize, uh oh, we’re out of words; some people repeated “Be to You…”, some literally mumbled; I dunno, it was funny.