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Celebrate in Song

“Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:19

Recently, I came across the phrase the song of ordinary life. Life does seem to have a rhythm, doesn’t it? It’s a melody of high and low notes that come together in the song of our lives.

Music entered our world at the beginning of time. By Genesis 4 we read of string and woodwind instruments (v. 21). Moses and Miriam sang in victory (Exodus 15) after the Israelites escaped from Egypt. In Deuteronomy God tells Moses to teach the people a song recounting His deeds so they’d always remember them (31:19-21). Job refers to God his Maker who gives songs in the night (35:10). The books of Psalms and Song of Solomon are wonderfully musical. Luke records Mary’s and Zachariah’s songs (1:46-55, 68-79). Paul and Silas sang at midnight in a prison cell (Acts 16:25). And of course, Revelation gives us numerous passages we’ve turned into hymns as we await that glorious day when we’ll sing in heaven with the saints from all time.

Let your ordinary life sing and celebrate God’s goodness. May hymns and songs comfort you and remind you of His deeds.

SCRIPTURE FOCUS
Ephesians 5:19-20

INSIGHT
I love singing hymns planted in my heart since my youth. “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God” (Psalm 40:3).

THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Song of Solomon 1-2
Psalm 69
John 9

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