Psalm 104:33–34 (ESV)
33I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I
have being.
34May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I
rejoice in the Lord.
Our thoughts this week have been on appropriate
meditation. These verses again bring us
back to this topic. Yet, closely
associated with meditation is singing.
Do songs, hymns, and spiritual songs have a presence in your daily
life? Singing, humming, and whistling
songs that I have learned through my life in church and at Christian camp and
Christian school have helped me through many a day. They help me to get my focus back on God and his
abundant blessings in my life as well as His love for me.
There are so many varieties of styles of Christian music out
there that I would encourage you to listen and find multiple ones that
challenge and encourage you in your walk.
Most importantly listen carefully to the words to make sure that they
can be supported by Scripture.
Unfortunately, there are many songs out there with weak theology or
wrong theology therefore, we should be
careful to choose those with good and strong theology.
If you say, “I don’t know where to start.” Let me encourage you to look up Keith and
Kristen Getty’s website and listen to some of their new hymns. They are full of strong theology and great
ideas to meditate upon God.
Why is this important? God wants to be pleased with our
meditation and music is a very powerful medium that will help to influence and
change our meditation. Therefore, it is
necessary to listen to music and memorize music that will be pleasing to God as
our meditation. This was the Psalmists’
desire, my prayer that it would be yours and mine as well.
May we have a lifelong passion for our Sovereign Creator
that drives us to sing and raise our voices in praise to His name.
Paul realized the importance of this in corporate worship as
well. He commanded that we be “speaking
to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody in our hearts to the Lord.” (Eph. 4:29) In Colossians he further stated, “Let the Word
of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord. (Col. 3:16)
Not only does singing songs and meditating on songs help us
in our daily walk with Christ, but it helps us to prepare to be obedient to
these commands that we are to fulfill toward one another.
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