Sing to the Lord

Sing to the LORD, all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods. – 1 Chronicles 16.23-25

First and Second Chronicles are basically a retelling of First and Second Kings with a focus on a few different areas. 

Here we have a psalm written after David became king. Most of the things are things we read in other psalms, and this may be as well, but it struck out me as I read it this time – ‘Sing to the Lord all the earth!’ 

I’ll be going to church in a few hours. Part of our service involves singing songs of worship and praise and devotion and testimony to our Lord. We are a small church so often our singing is not loud or powerful or even beautiful to many ears. But part of the reason we gather is to sing. 

Song has been a part of worship since the very beginning and it carries on. We are told to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. We are told to make melody in our hearts to the Lord. Oral singing should be a natural outgrowth of our songs of joy in our hearts. 

As we head out to church today lets do so prepared in our hearts to sing out to our Lord in praise and honour and devotion to Him for who is and all He has done.