My question to you this morning – what makes you sing? But, you say, “I don’t sing.” Really? How about at a party with friends? Karaoke? Songs you grew up with? Don McLean’s American Pie? How about Sweet Caroline? Or, your favorite football fight song? War Eagle? Yeah Alabama? Hail Dear Ol’ State? Or perhaps your Armed Service Anthem, Happy Birthday, God Bless America, Christmas carols…? Do you sing Rock-a-Bye-Baby to your grandchild? Do you sing in the care? In the shower?
What does this Psalm say?
Sing a new song all the earth – a new song by a new creation, the joys of new life – for all who come to the Lord!
John Piper wrote, “We are a singing people. And there is a reason for this. The reality of God and Christ and creation and salvation and heaven and hell are simply too great for mere speaking; they must also be sung. So music and singing are necessary to Christian faith and worship for the simple reason that the realities of God and Christ, creation and salvation, heaven and hell are so great that when they are known truly and felt duly, they demand more than discussion and analysis and description; they demand poetry and song and music. Singing is the Christian's way of saying: God is so great that thinking will not suffice, there must be deep feeling; and talking will not suffice, there must be singing.” |
