February 6, 2024 -- Psalm 92:1-3 -- Name that Tune

It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High;
to declare Your steadfast love in the morning,
and your faithfulness by night,
to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
Psalm 92:1-3 ESV

“Well, it’s one for the money, two for the show”. Can you guess the song? Can you guess the singer? (Blue Suede Shoes, Elvis). Well, it was originally written and performed by Carl Perkin, but Elvis covered it a year later. (Of course it has been covered by other singer and that phrase is also used in other songs.) What is the point? Well, with a couple of words you can begin singing a whole song. For more contemporary audiences, here’s another example, “Hello, it’s me”. (If you guessed “Hello” Adele, 2015 you’d be right on the money lol).

What is the point? The music playing in the background of stores, what we laughingly call “elevator music” or “muzak” has a really big influence on you. The music blaring at your work-site is not leading you closer to God. Words penetrate your thoughts and become brain worms weaving in and out of your consciousness. This is happening more than you even realize, until you play "I can name that tune in four words or three notes". These songs on the various music stations are not bringing glory to God. The musical accompaniment is meant to drive a wedge between you and God.

So, it is good to give thanks to the LORD—morning, noon and night. It is appropriate that musical selections are skillfully written—both the words and the tunes—so that believers hum and sing praises to God their King through-out the day and night. There are many songs that based on the bible, so that in hearing them one begins to know the Bible and more importantly, to sing praises to Him Who is the Most High God. These songs are reminders of His steadfast love. These are songs that lift the soul from the pit of despair and the gloomy contemplations of one’s troubles and bring the believers to the place where the believer sees the beauty of the Father through the work of Jesus—the One Sacrifice who has reconciled you to Him—and the work of the Holy Spirit Who seals this to your mind and heart.

It is an interesting question. If you should happen to get dementia and the songs you’ve stored up in your heart break out on your lips, because your filters are all but gone—what will you singing? “I’m on the highway to” (I can’t bring myself to write the rest, no doubt many of your know it already). Here’s the contrast “The LORD’s my Shepherd”.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
    at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

5 How great are your works, O Lord!
    Your thoughts are very deep!
6 The stupid man cannot know;
    the fool cannot understand this:
7 that though the wicked sprout like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
8     but you, O Lord, are on high forever.
9 For behold, your enemies, O Lord,
    for behold, your enemies shall perish;
    all evildoers shall be scattered.

5 How great are your works, O Lord!
    Your thoughts are very deep!
Today's prayer is Psalm 92:4-9 with the repetition of verse 5 ESV

https://youtu.be/OoojA0cLPWY?si=zU_UT9q3MvKexaba “Psalm 23” Shane and Shane

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