A Reason to Sing!
by
Pastor Ricky Kurth
During their seventy years of captivity in Babylon, the
people of Israel didn’t feel much like singing:
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
“We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
“For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Psa. 137:1-4).
We are told that the children of Israel were well known for their
music, and we wouldn’t be surprised if this were so, for faith
in our God has inspired countless great compositions down
through the centuries. But when their captors demanded that they
sing the songs that expressed the joy they felt in their God and
their homeland, the sorrow they felt in their hearts would not
allow these captives to give voice to such expressions while
shackled with the chains of Babylonian bondage.
But if God’s people cannot sing outside of their Promised Land,
how can Paul call on us to be “speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord” (Eph. 5:19)? How can we sing the
Lord’s songs in the land made strange to us by the anti-God
sentiment found all around us, and the iniquity upon iniquity
that we see on every hand?
We believe it is because God has already “raised us up together,
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”
(Eph. 2:6). Remember, we serve a God that “calleth those
things which be not as though they were” (Rom. 4:17). In that
passage, God was able to call Abraham “the father of many”
before he had any children. This is because God had promised to
multiply his seed, and so in the mind of God he already had a
multitude of descendants! In the same way, God can use the past tense
in describing how we are already “glorified” (Rom. 8:30), and
since the Lord has promised that we will one day “reign with
Him” (II Tim. 2:12) from thrones on which we will sit together
with Christ in heavenly places, in His mind it is as good as
done, we are as good as there.
And if that’s not something worth singing about, I don’t know
what is!
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