A SONG REBORN

There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.  Hosea 2: 15

            When was the last time you sang a song of joy?  For some of us, it was a song we composed as a child.  Can you remember what it felt like to skip down the road?  “That child lives no more,” you say.

Adult life can remove us from those carefree days of childhood.  Abounding joy is a distant memory.  We can’t imagine ever feeling that way again.  Sometimes we’re trapped by the existence of our own choosing.  In our youth, we made poor choices and now we face long-term consequences.  Perhaps there were warning signs, perhaps not.  I know many women who say that the man they married started changing the day after their wedding.  He slowly became a stranger.  They can’t imagine how their soul will survive a lifetime of matrimony.

We can also feel trapped by things that are out of our control.  An accident leaves us in a wheelchair.  Our child is diagnosed with leukemia.  We are called upon to care for an aging parent with Alzheimer’s.  Will we ever feel like singing again?   Even faintly?  We believe the song has died.

God is reaching out to His children in the wilderness.  No mistake is too severe for His mercy.  And, there is no twist of fate.  God is sovereign and knew the elements of our story long before we lived our life.  No tragedy is beyond redemptive grace.  His love is for any of us who no longer know how to sing.  He calls to us in our wilderness and says, “I see you!  I’m here.  You can feel like a carefree child again!”  He might offer a physical deliverance, or set our soul free from the bars of despair.

For forty five years, I couldn’t find my true voice, but You broke through an defined me.  Help my voice grow stronger and more dynamic for your glory.  Amen