The
great difference between we who know CHRIST, and those who
don't, is the source of our song. Just listen to the
world's lyrics and you'll hear a melody full of malady.
Contained in fallen composure, is the tone of sin's woes, a
revealing of all that life is as lived in the vacuum of GOD'S
absence ... yes indeed, a real dirge of despair. It is not our surroundings
or circumstance which dictate our song; but our fons et origo
...
our fountainhead . All who have the lake of fire as their
headwaters prove it in a chorus that is easily extinguished in
adversity.
"But none saith, Where is GOD my MAKER, WHO giveth songs in
the night ..." 'Blues'
are the best the lost can do; but what a balm are the old songs
of Zion! One might make a fair living selling records with
no heart; but money will never buy a heart which rejoices to see JESUS CHRIST.
"And
at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto GOD:
and the prisoners heard them."
What does it take to squelch your song?
The answer to that reaches to the exact fathom of your relationship with
your SAVIOR. Trials, like a sonar, probe for the depth of
our song, to release the charges of destruction in the effort to
silence it. The "righteous"
however, hold the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD resident to rejoice, to
which the trials of life hold no power.
"Yet the LORD will
command HIS lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night HIS
song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the GOD of my life."
Any vulture can sing in the sun.
The real test of your song comes in the storm GOD allows to stir
up your nest. There, in the vortex, the true tone of your tune will
manifest itself; and there, if you are willing, GOD in HIS grace, turns vultures into
glorious
songbirds.
"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?"