Sing to God!

This post is part of a devotional series based on our 2019 Bible Reading Calendar.

“For the Church has been, is, and always should be and can be a joyfully singing Church. In a sense, singing is part of what we exist to do,” so proclaim songwriters Keith and Kristyn Getty.[1] And so they are correct.

Woven within the identity of Jesus’ people is song. Both in individual devotion and corporately gathered throughout the ages Christians have been known to sing.

It’s no wonder. Our sacred texts (the Bible) contains a song book. Yes, the tunes have been lost to the ages (though some are setting the words to ancient and modern tunes today), but the Psalms is a collection of prayerful songs.

Within their words, we even find exhortations to sing. Psalm 147:1 says, “Hallelujah! How good it is to sing to our God, for praise is pleasant and lovely.”

One of the great tragedies of our days is the so-called worship wars–churches dividing over preferences of musical style. We sometimes get in our own way of carrying out a good and beautiful act: Singing to God as one voice together.

Our singing should unite us to speak of God and his word in our harmonies. While praising God in song should help focus our minds, it can also help us to shut out, for a moment, the busyness of life and get lost in the worship and grace of God.

Let us sing. Let us sing as the redeemed of God through Jesus. Let us sing of his goodness. Let us sing because it is good.

Scripture quotations taken from the Christian Standard Bible.

[1] Keith and Kristyn Getty, Sing! (B&H Publishing, 2017), xxi.