Read this first: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+96&version=NIV
This Psalm is super familiar it seems like I’ve sung it before and I thought maybe it was the trees of the field clapping their hands but apparently that’s Isaiah. I also feel like a field has trees it ceases to be a field but that’s a discussion for later. Let me know what hymn I know Psalm 96 from.
It makes sense to think about hymns with this psalm because it says “sing to the Lord a new song” We’ve been living groundhog day for months now. Every day is the same and I want something new. In church it’s often difficult to add new hymns. Yet in the pop music world- there is always a new song and we get tired when a song is overplayed. New is novel and though new rarely means better when it comes to emotions it’s good to have new ones. And new songs of praise are better than the alternatives: the emotions we could feel from a new twitter or facebook posts of rage.
No the dance party changes covid from dreary to cheery. A new song to the Lord touches us and changes us. There’s still reasons to rejoice when we look at the same 4 walls again and make a new dish in the oven. Be happy for four walls, for internet, for grace, for God’s word that sustains, for 4 limbs that let us move.
He is the one who makes all things new! Be a new creation this week in His name!
Marking It Up 