“Song of the Redeemed”
Music has been a very important part of my life from as far back as I can remember. My Dad’s best friend was Sam Cooke, the legendary soul singer, so we started singing at a very early age. I can remember a childhood of singing around the “record player” (You young ones can Google that term to see that ancient relic). My wife and I have been singing in church choirs, groups, productions, weddings, recording sessions, and on stages for many years. My sons were a part of the singing group, One Chance, and have toured with numerous artists and signed a recording contract with R&B singer,Usher. So…. music and singing have been a big part of my life.
I am told that Christianity is the only religion where the devotees sing praises to the object or being they worship. Think about that… out of all the religions of the world, we are the only people who joyfully sing praises to our God and I believe it is because we have been redeemed!!
“Singing seems to come from the soul of someone who was in bondage, but now has been freed and redeemed!”
We, who are redeemed, can do something that even angels cannot do… SING! (I’ll pause for a moment of silence while you get up from the floor and compose yourself) I know we have been taught there is an angelic choir and that notion has been further popularized by sayings such as, “She sings like an angel” and songs like “Hark, The Herald Angels Sing.” But, I cannot seem to find any passages in the Bible that say angels sing. Listen to this well-known passage used in Christmas pageants and plays describing the angelic host announcing the birth of Jesus:
“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying [not singing], Glory to God in the highest...” (Luke 2:13-14)
Angels only “say.” They speak… but there is a good chance they don’t sing. It seems that singing is the natural response of a joyful soul that has been redeemed from the slavery of sin!
We have been redeemed from the mastery and the misery of sin… so we can sing!
We have been redeemed and purchased with the blood of Jesus… so we can sing!
We have been redeemed from eternal separation from our God…. so we can sing!/p>
We have been redeemed in order to spend eternity with our God… so we can sing!