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Psalm 137:1-6 • Sing - Peggy Locke
One of my grandkids asked me, “What’s your favorite song to sing Grammy?’ I answered, “The one I’m singing of course!”
I love to sing.
But, there was a time I stopped singing. I was on the 11th floor cancer ward of UCSF with our 17 year old son Johnny who was going through chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplant after a recurrence of lymphoma. I read to him everyday. I was reading Psalm 137 out loud to him one particular morning.
“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.”
I sat there dumbfounded after reading those words. I got quiet. And Johnny said, “Mom, you don’t sing anymore – you use to sing all the time.” It was like a bolt of lightening hit me. I realized God was speaking to me through the psalm and through Johnny.
I felt we had been carried away captive in a foreign land to the UCSF cancer ward. I did not want to be there. How could I sing?
“May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember You O Lord!”
I shuddered at the thought.
It was time to sing to the Lord again - for Johnny, but also for me. I asked God for help. I awkwardly began to make groanings deep within my soul. Tears came with the song. It was like a build-up of pain, emotion, and all the things I’d tried to keep down inside me came bubbling up and spilling out all over. But I was singing. Johnny smiled at me, and I think God smiled too.
I will sing to the Lord and never stop singing to Him again.
“I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Ps 104:33
Songs of praise and worship are a powerful weapon against the enemy! In 2 Chronicles 20 Jehoshaphat placed the singers at the front of the army, and as they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the enemy and they were defeated!
Have you stopped singing with all that’s happening around us? Open your mouth and begin to sing again. Sing to our highest joy! Sing to Jesus. Make a joyful noise to the Lord! Let God arise and His enemies be scattered!
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By Crosspointe MinistriesOne of my grandkids asked me, “What’s your favorite song to sing Grammy?’ I answered, “The one I’m singing of course!”
I love to sing.
But, there was a time I stopped singing. I was on the 11th floor cancer ward of UCSF with our 17 year old son Johnny who was going through chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplant after a recurrence of lymphoma. I read to him everyday. I was reading Psalm 137 out loud to him one particular morning.
“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.”
I sat there dumbfounded after reading those words. I got quiet. And Johnny said, “Mom, you don’t sing anymore – you use to sing all the time.” It was like a bolt of lightening hit me. I realized God was speaking to me through the psalm and through Johnny.
I felt we had been carried away captive in a foreign land to the UCSF cancer ward. I did not want to be there. How could I sing?
“May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember You O Lord!”
I shuddered at the thought.
It was time to sing to the Lord again - for Johnny, but also for me. I asked God for help. I awkwardly began to make groanings deep within my soul. Tears came with the song. It was like a build-up of pain, emotion, and all the things I’d tried to keep down inside me came bubbling up and spilling out all over. But I was singing. Johnny smiled at me, and I think God smiled too.
I will sing to the Lord and never stop singing to Him again.
“I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Ps 104:33
Songs of praise and worship are a powerful weapon against the enemy! In 2 Chronicles 20 Jehoshaphat placed the singers at the front of the army, and as they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the enemy and they were defeated!
Have you stopped singing with all that’s happening around us? Open your mouth and begin to sing again. Sing to our highest joy! Sing to Jesus. Make a joyful noise to the Lord! Let God arise and His enemies be scattered!