God is speaking giving Moses final instructions before he hands over leadership to Joshua and goes up on the mountain to die. God wants to help His people remember that the blessing or curses they will experience in the future is entirely dependent upon them. How they respond to God will determine how He responds to them. They will tend to forget His instructions. He wants them to remember. So God tells Moses: teach them a song!
"Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them." Deuteronomy 31:19
Their is an innate power in music. Singing words seems to imprint them in our memories so much more. So God tells Moses, use music to help these words be memorable; to help these disobedient, forgetful people remember to obey!
The power of song! Yesterday in a powerful Sunday morning service, we sang, back to back, a worship song and then an old hymn. Some of us were deeply moved, words choking in our throats, eyes moistened. We sang "How can it be, that you my King would die for me?" and then we were singing, "How marvellous, how wonderful is my Saviour's love for me." These familiar songs and words moved me once again. But more than an emotional feeling, the words were reminding me and others of great truth. Christ loved and loves me so much! I am glad those songs are familiar; glad that I can sing those words (silently for the sake of others) to myself. Thank you Lord for the power of worship hymns and songs that move us and that imprint great biblical truths!
The power of song? Just ask me what I remember best: the words of my sixth grade teachers or the Elvis Presley songs I was hearing that year?
"Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them." Deuteronomy 31:19
Their is an innate power in music. Singing words seems to imprint them in our memories so much more. So God tells Moses, use music to help these words be memorable; to help these disobedient, forgetful people remember to obey!
The power of song! Yesterday in a powerful Sunday morning service, we sang, back to back, a worship song and then an old hymn. Some of us were deeply moved, words choking in our throats, eyes moistened. We sang "How can it be, that you my King would die for me?" and then we were singing, "How marvellous, how wonderful is my Saviour's love for me." These familiar songs and words moved me once again. But more than an emotional feeling, the words were reminding me and others of great truth. Christ loved and loves me so much! I am glad those songs are familiar; glad that I can sing those words (silently for the sake of others) to myself. Thank you Lord for the power of worship hymns and songs that move us and that imprint great biblical truths!
The power of song? Just ask me what I remember best: the words of my sixth grade teachers or the Elvis Presley songs I was hearing that year?
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