One thing that makes me sad is how our churches often come to the lyrics of the greatest song book in the world and all we do is read the words in unison with a monotone voice. Yes, God’s word is perfect but forgive me when I say that maybe even God gets bored by the way we read it out loud! We seem to have forgotten that this was not the way the Psalms were intended to be experienced. Maybe it would help to think of the Psalms as songs whose melody has fallen asleep. With all the talent out there, why don’t more people compose new melodies for these precious promises of God to be sing by? The Psalms Project is one such group that has set about to try and bring them to life again, but there is so much more that could be done if others could catch the vision of singing God’s word.
You may consider scripture songs, to be somewhat old-fashioned or wooden, but once you try it, you will discover some wonderful benefits, just waiting to be explored. God always blesses the joyful singing of His word, in fact one of the last things Jesus did with His disciples was to sing a hymn after the Last Supper! Those lyrics most likely began with:
"Yes, give praise, O servants of the Lord.
Praise the name of the Lord!
Blessed be the name of the Lord
now and forever.
Everywhere—from east to west—
praise the name of the Lord." Psalm 113:1-3
Imagine Jesus singing such praises just hours before His arrest, beating and torturous death. As the very Living word of God, He went to the cross still singing God’s word. Today, young people pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to listen to their favorite pop star, because their songs make them laugh, cry, or feel romantic. They shell out megabucks for just a passing experience, but the Psalms give far more than temporary feelings. Within them are the depth of the riches of the heart of God. What can be happier than?
“Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy;” Psalm 126:2
Or what sadder words have you ever heard than?
“I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.”
Psalm 6:6.
God knows that when we laugh, cry, or even complain to Him, that we begin to connect with Him and with His word in the depths of our souls. So, why not take a moment with the world’s greatest songbook today, and either alone or with others, sing out the precious words that God has given us there and allow them to sink into your heart and mind?
He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord.
Psalm 40:3 NLT
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When we pastored, we had a book of Psalms put to music. We still enjoy singing them in our home.
Oh, yes, we used to sing many passages directly from the Psalms and Psalms 24, 100 and 150 in their entirety. I still remember most of them by heart. (along with the 12 disciples and 66 books of the Bible!)
One of the funniest posters I ever saw was of Jesus sitting in a church pew during a service and nodding off!😂
The Psalms have been my favorite book of the Bible for years, now. I chose Psalm 86:12 as my “life verse” many years ago. “Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.” Sadly, I have never tried to set that to a melody. Maybe I need to do that. I’ve heard some groups try to set Psalms to music, and it doesn’t always work, when they try to just do it verbatim with whatever translation they are using. We forget, I think, that these were Hebrew poems, not English. I would be willing to bet that they flowed a lot better in the original language. Perhaps, when we get to heaven, we will be able to hear them as they were originally sung.
Hebrew poetry didn’t ryhme even in the original. They depended on things like parrallelism, beats per measure and the first letter of each line being the same. The key was it helped them memorize scripture because few had access to scrolls or even read.