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“Sing him a new song…”
~ Psalms 149:1
I love how David encourages us to sing a new song to the Lord, because there are times and seasons where the familiar songs, we have always sung to God, speak to a day and time long since passed. They feel like yesterday’s “golden oldies” when we were learning who we were to God and who He was to us. As I write this, I am in one of those seasons. This passage comforts me, because while I love the greatest hits songs my soul has sung with God, I can’t get those songs to resonate truthfully from where my heart is at the moment.
We can sing past songs to God, as if they were old-school hits and smile with nostalgia because we remember where we were when we experienced those chords with Him, but those “oldies” don’t reflect where we are in this very moment.
David proposes something different. Clear the notepad, get quiet, and write a new song to sing. Something that reflects where you are right now.
A new song for a new season.
Instead of trying to force a song into our heart, use this season of unfamiliar to write, and sing a new song to the Lord. If it is a sad season, don't be ashamed to write a sad song. If it is an angry one, rage metal one out there. Happy? Sing happy. Whatever you do, don't stop singing.
Today, I choose to sing him a new song. A song for the current season in my life. I am struggling with what words to use and what the melody will sound like as my broken heart is desperately trying to compose. The notes are offbeat, and the lyrics are broken.
Right now, I am in a place where I am just putting words, phrases, and ideas down on paper, and after the words spill out, embarrassment washes over me. What kind of song am I writing? Not a lot of this rhymes or makes sense, but these are the words I am learning and composing in this season.
Words like hurt, anger, pain, betrayal, broken, loneliness, isolation, fear, mistrust, doubt, and disillusionment fill my notepad. These were never words I wanted to know personally, and yet these are the words moving from my heart to my page.
But I look again at the tear-stained notebook and see other words that I am learning, or sometimes, re-learning and they make me smile through the tears. They are words like hope, new, next chapter, faith, affirmation, strength, boundaries, courage, restoration, forgiveness, and rebuild.
I am learning phrases like:
“God has my heart.”
“What we allow is what we live.”
“You work through what you walk through.”
“There is a time to build and tear down.”
“Give pain its season, grieve, and then quietly heal.”
“I am loved for who I am.”
“I am enough.”
“Let go of a desired outcome.”
“God’s voice can be heard in silence.”
“Don’t run from a place where God is.”
These words and phrases are all part of my new song.
I don’t know what the finished song is going to sound like, for this writing process has been the most painful I have ever experienced, but I know that even in my brokenness, the glimpses of melody that my spirit hears have been soothing, beautiful, and wild.
Trust is scarce for me today, and yet I trust Him to help me write and sing a new song to Him in His perfect time.
Today, I choose to ask God for His strength and courage to open my heart once again, to take the words and phrases and melodies that He places in my soul and write again. Today, I choose to allow God to write His new song in my heart. God will provide the melody and the lyrics in a message. I just need to provide the heart for Him to write His new song on and the voice to sing it.
I trust that in His time, and through His love, this song will be absolutely beautiful.
“In the silence, a new song starts,
A melody born from broken parts.
With every note, a healing grace
A gentle touch, a warm embrace.
The song unfolds, a story true
Of forgiveness, strength, and love brand new.”
~Daniel
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