As a history buff, I recently read about an incident that occurred during World War II, involving students and teachers of a school for missionary children in China who were imprisoned by occupying Japanese military forces. As they traveled toward their place of confinement, someone began singing the words of a familiar song.<\/p>\n
Soon all the prisoners joined in: “God is still on the throne, and He will remember His own; though trials may press us and burdens distress us, He never will leave us alone.” It remained their theme song for nearly 3 years until they were released at the end of that terrible conflict.<\/p>\n
Their experience reminds me of what David said regarding the Lord’s deliverance in Psalm 32:7, “You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance.”<\/p>\n
When our circumstances seem overwhelming, do we have a song of deliverance that we can sing? It’s not unusual to have a favorite hymn that speaks of God’s faithful love and presence. At unexpected moments, the words and music come back to us as a reminder that Almighty God is still in charge (Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:32; Daniel 5:21), and that He will never forsake us (Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5; cf. Genesis 28:15; Deuteronomy 31:6-8; Joshua 1:5).<\/p>\n
If there’s ever an experience in our life that has come like “a flood of great waters” (Psalm 32:6), let’s sing of the Lord’s faithfulness and allow Him to surround us with songs of deliverance.<\/p>\n
\nI care not today what the morrow may bring,
If shadow or sunshine or rain,
The Lord I know ruleth o’er everything,
And all of my worry is vain<\/em>.
I know that He safely will carry me thru,
No matter what evils betide,
Why should I then care tho’ the tempests may blow,
If Jesus walks close to my side.
Living by faith, In Jesus above,
Trusting, confiding in His great love;
From all harm safe in His sheltering arm,
I’m living by faith and feel no alarm.<\/em><\/strong> J. Wells<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a history buff, I recently read about an incident that occurred during World War II, involving students and teachers of a school for missionary children in China who were imprisoned by occupying Japanese military forces. As they traveled toward their place of confinement, someone began singing the words of a familiar song. Soon all … Continue reading “Do We Have A Song To Sing? – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}