Can you remember the last time you just started singing? For no apparent reason you just burst into song either in your head or out loud. You just couldn't stop from singing a few lines of your favorite song. Hopefully it was some time this morning or yesterday, I know I am bad about it. Especially in the car, I hear a song that really hits me and I start singing it. A lot of times if I am travelling to the far north or southwest part of the county for work I will turn the radio off and just talk to God. I like to call it windshield worship, some of my most meaningful moments and ideas come during times of riding in the truck just talking and listening to God. Once I am through talking and listening I often times find myself(I know this is corny) singing a song that I really like. It happened just yesterday as I was dropping some items off at our thrist store, I started singing a song that Chris Tomlin sang at Student Life this past summer that I absolutely fell in love with. It talks about God being the GOd of this city and how great and powerful He is in all circumstances. Also, it talks about better things are yet to come in the city. The song isn't as important as the singing is.
I used to watch a show called Ally McBeal with Tara, the show was extremely quirky with lots of funny little things but one thing I do remember. They went to a therapist and the therapist would have these attorneys pick out a theme song for themselves and that song should be playing in their heads all the day long. How much greater is it when we let God have control and give us our theme song!
Psalm 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.
There it is, David went from being in the pits, to having God place his feet on the rock solid ground, and now God took it one step farther by giving him a new song. It is God's desire that all of us sing, sing joyfully to the Lord(whether it sounds joyful or not) but there are some ingredients to each song.
FIrst, we need to understand that storms come into life and they are ordained by God. God ordains those times of being in the pits, so that we can fully rely on Him to lift us out. Once He has placed our feet on solid ground again out of the pits, then is when the songs come back. So next time you're in a rut, feeling like you're in the pits or life is the pits, remember that is when you are most reliant on God, let Him lift you out and give you a new song.
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