Category: new song

Sing: To Relate or Celebrate in Verse

He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be astounded.
They will put their trust in the LORD. 
(Psalm 40:3 NLT)
I can hear some of you groaning, but Kel, “I don’t have a good singing voice.” Neither do I, but that doesn’t keep me from relating to God through music or singing in order to celebrate His goodness. And besides, I am not encouraging you to join the choir or compare yourself to someone else. This is just another way to add some pizzazz and emotional depth to your personal time with God.

I won’t go on and on about the benefits of music and singing, instead I will give you the list of ideas from 30 Ways to Wake Up Your Quiet Time. Consider them to be springboards for your next musically inspired quiet-time!

Here are some ideas that Pam suggests to enhance your musical quiet-time :

  • Pull out the lyric jacket out of a CD or cassette that you don’t normally listen to. [Or find your favorite worship lyric online.] See if you can figure out what might have been going through the lyricist’s mind or what was going on in his or her life when it was written.
  • Find a hymnal. Try to sing as many hymns as you know. List your favorites. Choose ones you’d like sung at your wedding, your baptism, your funeral or other significant events in your life. Place the list in your Bible.
  • Many hymns are based on a Scripture text. [Do a Scripture search based on words from the hymn and see how the Word might have inspired the song.]
  • Sing a praise song until you have it memorized–especially one that is straight from Scripture.
  • Try to put your favorite [Scripture] verse to a familiar tune.
  • Put on a purely instrumental recording. Have a cup of coffee or tea …while you meditate on God’s goodness in your life.
  • Read a book, such as A Hymn is Born by Clint Bonner…

    ©Pam Farrel from 30 Ways to Wake Up Your Quiet Time (IVP). For more devotional books by Pam http://www.Love-wise.com
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    Guest Poem from Slyvia Robertson

    He has given me a new song to sing
    a hymn of praise to our God.
    Many will see what he has done
     and be amazed.

        They will put their trust in the Lord.
    (Psalm 40:3 NLT)
      
     
    I am so pleased to have Slyvia share a poem with us today. She and I “met” at one of those famous blogosphere link-ups. She responded to my call for poetry and sent us this contemplative piece that she wrote when she first became a believer. She told me that although it started out as her new song, she now considers the poem her signature song.
    Slyvia blogs over at The Sylvr Pen, where she aims “toward more fully living the Christian life.” Her recent posts contemplate the life, death, resurrection and words of our Savior.
    Here is her poem. Feel free to leave Sylvia comments on this post.
     
    A New Song
     
    I’ve had enough of sepulchers,
    Of corridors of cells for bones
    That click their way in idiot grins
    Down hall to hall,
    From cell to cell–
     
     
    Of subway faces:
    Vacant masks that hang and sway
    In synchrony with dark machine
    That carries them they know not where.
     
     
    Pour forth the light!
    And let the prism of my frame
    Fragment the beams in diverge’ rays,
    In hues and tints and shades of glory
    To pierce the lids of sightless eyes
    And spark the fire of life again
    Within the walking dead.
     
    *(Copyright 1980, Sylvia K. Robertson. New then. Still new today)



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