God Loves To Sing

level of song we are on the highest level, where even God is not revealed to go

any higher. The Song of Songs is saying by its very title, you cannot go higher

than a song to communicate love.

It is also Godlike to rejoice over our works. For all we know God whistled

while He worked, or hummed a tune as He said, "Let there be light." He

enjoyed what He was doing, and when you enjoy your work you have the

potential of singing over your work. The work itself can be a song we offer to

God as a sacrifice of praise. Galen, the famous second century physician, said

of his professional life that he regarded it "As a religious hymn in honor of

the Creator." Life is on the highest level when we can do all we do for the

glory of God. When we do, all of life is a song of praise to God, and this is

what leads God to sing over us.

Maclaren, the great English preacher, wrote in his Expositions of Holy

Scripture, "Zion is called to rejoice in God because God rejoices in her. She

is to shout for joy and sing because God's joy too has a voice, and breaks out

into singing. For every throb of joy in man's heart, there is a wave of

gladness in God's." God loves to sing, and we give Him reason to do so when

we sing and make our life a cause for praise. The Living Bible makes this text

come alive. "Is that a joyous choir I hear? No, it is the Lord Himself exalting

over you in happy song." The questions this raises are many, and we will

have to wait till heaven to have our answers.

1. Does God write His own songs?

2. Does He sing solo, or always as a trio of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

3. Does He have the angels sing backup?

4. Is it recorded so we will be able to listen to God's love songs for His bride?

It is so hard to imagine God singing that most never try for they never see

this text in Zeph. and never explore the joy of God in His people. Spurgeon,

however, usually discovers the gems of the Bible that others pass by. Listen

to his excited comments on this text. "Think of the great Jehovah singins!

Can you imagine it? Is it possible to conceive of the Deity breaking into song:

Father, Son and Holy Spirit together singing over the redeemed? God is so

happy in the love which He bears to His people that He breaks the eternal

silence, and the sun and moon and stars with astonishment hear God chanting

a hymn of joy."

It is interesting that Spurgeon would say the sun, moon and stars hear

God's song. The Bible and hymnology are full of this idea that the whole

universe listens to God's song, as if all of its orderly and beauty of movement

is its dance to God's tune. Psa. 148 says the whole universe praises God, and

other Psalms have the trees clapping and the mountains skipping to God's

tune. Jesus even said on Palm Sunday, if the people had not praised Him, the

very rocks would have cried out. That would have really been Christian rock

music had the literal rocks broken into songs of praise for their Creator. We

sing at Christmas, "Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o'er the