In looking over the Psalm assigned to be read for this Sunday, the first verse caught my attention:
O Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth. (96:1)
Why should we sing unto the Lord a NEW song? I doubt if it means to sing Contemporary (CCM) over the old familiar hymns. Actually, neither existed when David penned this verse thousands of years ago, He wrote many of the psalms, and they were all “new” at one time.
Perhaps it is because the birds rise and sing with the sun. Maybe David took that as a hint that we should arise and praise God as well.
Another nugget of Scripture popped into my head-
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-24
Okay, Biblical scholars, I realize Lamentations was written centuries after David’s Psalms, but that to me is one of the proofs that the Bible is alive and God-breathed, as it states in Paul’s second letter to Timothy. So follow me here…
If God’s mercies are NEW every morning, and if we do as is suggested — not to let the sun set on our anger but rather pray it out before retiring so we can sleep in peace — then we can sing a new song every morning. Each day can be a fresh start. No need to carry over yesterday’s angst, regrets and sins.
I am going to personally renew the commitment to end each day wiping the slate clean with my Lord, just before my eyes close, by asking Him to give me a new morning when my eyes pop open again.
And I know He will. Because, great is His faithfulness.
Lord, may I be as faithful to You.
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