A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
🌷🌷October 30🌷🌷
“O Sing unto the LORD a new song” (Psa. 96:1)
The Psalmist is full of gratitude. He is inviting the whole earth to join him in his song. His joy was so abundant, else he would not have done this. The writer of this Psalm had gone through much hardship. Yet in spite of all this suffering, he was singing the praises of God. Is not that unusual? Generally, during days of suffering, a man would not feel like singing. Yet, here we have a person who was rejoicing in the midst of extreme suffering with joy which is so great, abundant and wonderful, that he wants everyone to join him in it. How did this singer get such a great joy and such a wonderful song? It was received by his knowledge of God and the experience of His great salvation. Everyone who has received the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour will receive such kind of Heavenly joy, which will go on multiplying day by day, and which they can share the whole world and even with the whole universe.
Why is the song called a “new song”? This indicates that it has not been sung before. It is not like the good old songs sung in different parts of the world. It is entirely new in its language, meaning and music. It is a new song unknown to earthly men. Some people think only of an experience which they had some time ago. They have no fresh experience and so they live only on the past experience. We thank God for every happy experience of God we have had in the past. But we cannot go on living in these experiences always. If we do, our song will not be a new song anymore. Some believers go on repeating the same old words in prayer and worship week after week. Of course, such are better than those who never sing or pray or worship at all. But their joy would have been more if they had learnt to sing “The new song”, through fresh experiences of Christ received from time to time.
In order to help us have such fresh experiences, God sends trials and difficulties in our lives, so that we may prove His faithfulness again and again in new ways. At such times some people are overwhelmed and discouraged. They are full of complaints and tears. But those who learn by faith how to get victory over their trials can sing, “I stumbled and the Lord raised me up; I was in difficulties and He helped me”. In this way they can show forth His salvation day by day.
