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Psalm 40 3 He put a new song in my mouth, |
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Many of us hear a song on the radio or in church and carry it with us for a time. We may even have a hymn or other Christian song
we refer to in moments of joy or challenge. Regardless of how well each of us may be able to sing, it is special to us because of the
words it bears and even how the music carries us. As we come to know Jesus and follow him, we have the sense of what can even be like a music score moving in and out of our
attention at times. An undercurrent that bears us through
life. |
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Is there a soundtrack for living? For the writer of the 40th psalm, at the beginning verses was probably "Nobody Knows the
Troubles I've Seen." In the early verses in the psalm, he tells us that
he was in desperate straits. He doesn't describe the circumstances, but it
was some difficulty so deep that he portrayed it as a "desolate
pit" and a "miry bog." But then he received
the help of the Lord, and he experienced a transformation - from the mire in
the bottom of the pit to solid footing of rock up in the land of the living. At that
point, the psalmist said, God "put a new song in my mouth." |
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Granted, the psalmist lived centuries before Jesus came, but his statement about receiving a new song, a new soundtrack, is what Christianity is about. Christianity helps us to interpret life,
whether in the midst of it or near its end, with a soundtrack that, if
not always upbeat, at least has a joyous undertone. |
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