What Should We Sing?

 

What Should We Sing?

           The born-again Christian should sing songs of a different higher  character than those he or she sang as an unbeliever. In the miraculous act of the new birth, the old man is put off (Ephesians 4:22) and the new man is put on (Ephesians 4:24). The new man can testify that, “…he hath put a new song in my mouth, even [NIO] praise unto our God…” (Psalm 40:3). The new man has a song of a different character -his song praises God instead of man.  Christian musicians should not think it to be strange that there will of necessity have to be some changes in that person’s music and musicing when he or she has been made a new person through the power of Christ Jesus. 

          Verse two of the 40th Psalm states that before the Lord gave the  psalmist a new song, “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit (shaown 7588 bowr 953).” or as the Cambridge A.V. margin says, out of a “pit of noise.” It is important to note that God will bring the believer out of his or her prison of noise i.e. the new man is given a new song that is free from the prison of noise. In Amos 5:23 the Lord said to the children of Israel, “Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs …” How relevant this statement is in a day of loud amplification in country-rock, jazz, various forms of pop music, some forms of gospel music, and a plethora of other music fusions now being used for religious musicing.