Singing the Lord’s Song!

How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land (with so many people dying or have died)? COVID-19 has affected our world on a global level.

The pandemic of 2020 and 2021 impacted families all over the world with sickness and death. Lives, jobs, and homes were lost. Long lines formed at churches, community centers, and government charities as families sought food and clothing.

So how can we sing the Lord’s songs when there is so much pain? Remember the story of Paul and Silas being thrown into jail for preaching the gospel? While in prison, awaiting a possible death sentence, they sang and praised God! They sang the Lord’s songs from the depths of a dark, cold, and gloomy prison cell! Their songs ministered to other inmates and the jailer. They trusted their lives into the hands of God, who has the power to heal, deliver, or not deliver! We, too, can sing the Lord’s songs, even when our hearts are broken with grief.

Our praises to God should not be dictated by circumstances.

Our praise to Him is an expression of our complete trust and dependence on Him, regardless of our situation. Ellen White writes, “We cannot but look forward to new perplexities in the coming conflict, but we may look on what is past as well as on what is to come, and say, ‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.’ ‘As thy days, so shall thy strength be.’ Deuteronomy 33:25. The trial will not exceed the strength that shall be given us to bear it. Then let us take up our work just where we find it, believing that whatever may come, strength proportionate to the trial will be given.”* So, despite the uncertainty of tomorrow, we will lift our hearts in praise to God. He holds the future in His hands. By faith, we will continue to trust in Jesus and sing the songs of Zion! “Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD” (Psalm 150:6, KJV).

Jannett Maurine Myrie

* Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ (Washington, DC: Review and Herald®, 1977), 125.