Sing Out Loud!
"And now my head shall be lifted up above
my enemies all around me; therefore I will
offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I
will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord."
Psalm 27: 6
Marina Noyes, a pastor’s wife in Ukraine, explained how
her family dealt with
the hardships that fell on their nation
in 2022. “When the trouble comes, we cry. When it gets
bad, we pray. When it becomes unbearable, we sing.”
Difficulties of life trigger wide-ranging emotions
within us. God created us as emotional people,
and gave us personalities equipped to process
events of life.
Just as Jesus wept by the tomb of His friend,
we cry. But we don’t stop there.
We pray. We
trust. We seek out God’s comfort. We find His
promises and claim them, which allows us to
walk by faith.
We also sing, for the song in our heart comes
from the Holy Spirit, whose fullness spurs us
to render psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
(Ephesians 5:18-19).
What’s your favorite hymn or
praise song? Sing or listen to
it now?
"Beautiful music is the art
of
the prophets that can calm
the agitations of the soul."
Martin Luther