Songs
in the Night
Job 35:9-10, “By reason of the multitude of oppressions
they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the
mighty. But none saith, where is God my
maker, who giveth songs in the night…?”
I find
it hard to understand the mental torture that Job experienced at the same time
that he was in such physical distress. I
find it even harder to understand what it was like to be oppressed by his friends. I often wonder how Job withstood all this
torment without charging God foolishly.
Adam Clarke’s comments on verse nine include, “A holy soul has continual
communion with God: night and day its happiness is great; and God, from whom it
comes, is the continual subject of its songs of praise.” I believe Clarke was correct in hypothesizing
that Job was in continual connection and communion and that this connection
helped to make him an overcomer.
Psalm
42:8 which is a psalm for or to “the chief musician” gives us more food for
thought when it says, “Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the
daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God
of my life.” This psalm giving
instruction of the sons or for the sons of Korah is an eternal reminder to
chief musicians that when they are called on to be misunderstood or misjudged
by others that God’s night song will be with them and furthermore the words of
the song that God brings to their memory can become a prayer to those who have
our heavenly Father as the God of their lives.
Prayer
for Christian Musicians
Our dear and precious heavenly Father, I am coming unto
your presence by the mediatorial agency of Jesus Christ my Elder Brother and my
Advocate. Thank you for the songs that
You give in the night of pressure, misunderstanding and oppression of others. I am asking you to give comfort, solace, rest,
release and restoration to Your chief musicians who are oppressed by Satan the enemy of every
Christian musician’s soul. I am asking
You to let Your presence be experienced by every Christian musician who is
serving You with all his or her ability.
Please grant continual communion and connection to these musicians who
are at this very moment under the fire of misunderstanding and oppression. I am asking You to give complete victory in
Your powerful and wonderful name. Amen!
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