Did You Know God Composed A Song?
Deuteronomy 31:19,22
NIV
[19] “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them. [22] So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.
Did you know that God once dictated a song to Moses to teach Israel? That is what the verses say!
Isn’t it interesting and revealing that God composed a song for Moses to teach Israel? This must be a special song. How we wish it were preserved for us to hear!
After reading this, I struggled with myself: How was Moses going to teach it? I can't imagine Moses being a song’s teacher!
God knew long ago what we now know concerning the impact and power of songs! God knew it was an effective medium of communication so He used it to communicate with Israel.
David also knew this and as we read most of the psalms were written by him His son Solomon would probably have won a Grammy Award and the Nobel Prize for Literature if he were alive today.
He alone wrote ;
1 Kings 4
KJV
32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
The words of songs be they secular or spiritual never fade they remain evergreen! The older they get the better they are understood and appreciated!
Just pause for a moment and recall songs you knew when you were young and sang at school! As you ponder over the words you now understand them better than before, because you can relate to them through experience.
Every hymn/song is experiential, the author or composer wrote from experience. Popular hymns such as “ It is well with my soul “, ( Horatio Spafford) “O love that will not let me go “ ( George Matheson) were written from experience
Here is the incident that inspired or influenced the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul “ (Horatio Spafford)
“Spafford wrote the famous hymn "It is Well With My Soul" after hearing that his four daughters had died on a ship collision. This was two years after his only son died to pneumonia and his entire business was destroyed by the Chicago fire.” (Copied)
Songs/hymns etc put us in remembrance of events, situations, experiences and circumstances that occur in life.
Let me suggest and encourage you to write some of your life’s experiences; someone, some day will put them into hymns or songs of praise! If not songs, they can be turned into stories that will inspire generations after you.
Your struggles, successes and failures are inspirational, they will speak to us even though you are dead and gone!.
My thoughts
John Franklin Tamakloe