What do you like to sing? There are some families who sing only the hymns in their worship to God. There are others who sing the current worship songs.

All throughout history there have been different seasons of music. There was a time when God’s people only sang the psalms. Then they began to write hymns, filled with truth and such a wonderful way to learn doctrine. There was a season of Scripture in Song when churches all over the world were singing only the Scriptures. This was spearheaded by contemporaries of ours from New Zealand, Dave and Dale Garrett. But now most believers are worshipping God with the current worship songs which take you to the presence of God in glorious worship.

What do we like to do? Well, I am a great believer in both the new and the old. I love that Scripture in Matthew 13:52 which is a “one Scripture parable” which Jesus told: “Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things NEW AND OLD.”

I do believe that it is important to embrace the new for God is always moving and He tells us over and over in the Psalms to sing a NEW song unto Him.

Psalm 149:1: “Sing unto the LORD new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.”

However, I also believe it is imperative that we do not discard the old. I find that many young people today do not know the faithful old hymns of the faith and consequently miss out on such a treasure chest.

The Scriptures command us to know the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Word and sadly few are grounded in doctrine today. One of the wonderful ways to get doctrine into our hearts is by singing the hymns. Therefore, we sing the anointed worship songs (those that are truly anointed) in our weekly services and prayer meetings and we sing the hymns in our daily morning and evening devotions.

My husband knows hundreds of hymns and therefore it is easy for him to lead us in them each day. But even if you don’t know the hymns, you can look up the lyrics and music on the Internet. There are many choices. Some are sung in stiff and starchy old music, but you can find those that are sung with great anointing too. The hymns are not stiff and starchy when you sing them with all your heart.

My husband never allowed our children to sing softly or morbidly. They had to open their mouths wide, sing at the top of their voice, and with all their hearts. That’s how he grew up. My husband lived on a dairy farm in New Zealand and the boys would sing the hymns in the cowshed as they milked the cows. They could be heard for miles around as they all sang with all their hearts.

One of my favorite things in life was to get together with Colin’s family (nine children in the family) as they sang the hymns together, everyone singing at the top of their voice, mouths wide open, and in beautiful harmonies. There’s just nothing like it.

Another lovely thing about singing hymns is that most have a chorus which you sing between each verse. By repeating the chorus so many times you get to know it very quickly. And when we sing hymns, we love to sing EVERY verse. We don’t only pick out one or two.

This morning we sang the hymn, “Oh, how I love Jesus.” I think everyone knows this chorus, but it was great to sing all the verses too.

Colossians 3:16: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord”

Blessings from Nancy Campbell

PRAYER:

“Thank You Father, that You love us to sing. You gave us the gift of song. Help me to always be singing Your praises and help me to make our home a home of worship and praise. Amen.

AFFIRMATION:

I will sing and praise the Lord WITH MY WHOLE HEART!

Scriptures about singing a new song:

Psalm 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9; 149:1; Isaiah 42:10; Revelation 5:9 and 14:3.