"By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps,for there our captors asked us for songs,our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?"
I have introduced many musicals to Sean throughout the time we've been married. I'm sure he would rather be doing something other than watch musicals with me, but he does it because he loves me and that's always a great feeling.
I asked him one day if we could walk around and break out in random song to one another. We chuckled for a few and every now and again we actually sing around the house to one another or our pets.
In musicals, anybody is likely to burst spontaneously into song. That's why they're called musicals. But life is different. Have you noticed? Not everybody sings. In fact, many people have lost their song altogether.
Maybe you know someone who's lost their song. Their life used to sing and sparkle, but now there is only discord and static and unrest. Maybe that someone is you.
The Israelites lived this kind of tuneless existence during their Babylonian exile. The psalmist in Psalm 137 tells us they hung their harps on willows, and explained they couldn't possibly sing God's song in their present circumstances. But the Christian doesn't depend on his or her circumstances for musical inspiration.
A child who is afraid to travel into tunnels used to bury her face in her mother's shoulder until they passed through to the other side. After traveling through tunnels hundreds of times, she actually began not only to keep her eyes open, but also to look forward to the tunnels. When her parents asked her why, she said with a grin, "Well, it may be dark in the middle, but there's light at both ends of the tunnel."
The longer we walk with Jesus, the more we come to trust His presence, and the less we fear our circumstances. With Him, every day, every hour, is ripe for singing!
So, sing on!
Psalm 27:13 "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."
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