Don’t Forget Your God Song. (Relearn Your God Song).
Psalm 137:1-5TPT
The Regent Honeyeater- A rare songbird has become threatened, it has started to lose its song, say scientists.
"They don't get the chance to hang around with other honeyeaters and learn what they're supposed to sound like," explained Dr Ross Crates.
The regent honeyeater, once abundant in south-eastern Australia, is now listed as critically endangered; just 300 birds remain in the world.
So what is being done to save these song birds?
Scientists are gathering these birds into captivity, and piping the sound of a Honeyeater song bird song, so these young male birds can relearn their song.
Dr. Ross Crates states, “The problem is the older male birds are nowhere to be found, because the birds natural habitat has been destroyed, so they can't teach the younger male birds the, Honeyeater song.’ He states, “If those male birds are singing a weird song, the females will not mate with them,’ ‘So we hope that if they hear what they should be singing, they will learn to sing it themselves.”
Matthew Henry Commentary states, about Psalm 137, There are several psalms which are thought to have been penned in the latter days of the Jewish church, when prophecy was near expiring and the canon of the Old Testament ready to be closed up, but none of them appears so plainly to be of a late date as this, which was penned most likely by the prophet, Jeremiah, when the people of God were captives in Babylon, and they’re insulted over and over by these proud oppressors; probably it was towards the latter end of their captivity; for now they saw the destruction of Babylon hastening on apace, which would be their discharge.
Psalm 137:8NIV Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
I want to look at 5 verses of scripture in Psalm 137. It is said by many theologians that the prophet Jeremiah wrote psalm 137 I'm in my office
Psalm 137:1TPT Along the banks of Babylon’s rivers we sat as exiles, mourning our captivity, and wept with great love for Zion.
“The English words are sad, even mournful, but the words have an even sadder sound in the Hebrew language. Psalm 137:1-3, repeat nine times the pronoun ending nu (meaning ‘we’ or ‘our’), which sounds mournful. It is like crying ‘ohhh’ or ‘woe’ repeatedly.” (Boice)
Again, Why did Zion mourn and weep?
They wept over the death of so many loved ones.
They wept over the loss of almost everything they owned.
They wept over the destroyed city of Jerusalem and her great temple.
They wept over the agony of a forced march from Judea to Babylon.
They wept over the cruelty of their captors.
* They wept over the loss of such a pleasant and blessed past.
They wept over the forced captivity of their present.
They wept over the bleak nature of their future.
They wept over their sin that invited such judgment from God.
The whole world should be weeping: P.H
We should weep that Judges have to overrule murder in the first place.
We should weep for billions without prophetic vision. A God dream.
We should weep, because without God vision men, women, boys and girls turn to drugs, cutting, video games etc.
We should weep, because men desire men, and women desire women. This sexual perversion is a slap in the face to Creation!
CECC, we should weep. We should weep for souls, for church members who’ve become deceived.
Most of all, We should weep over our own humanity.
Psalm 137:2TPT Our music and mirth were no longer heard, only sadness. We hung up our harps on the willow trees.
Zion loses their song, Verse 2, of Psalm 137, states, 2a. Our music and sweet smells were no longer heard.
Q&A: Do you still have a song, and a sweet smell?
2b...“They hung their harps on the willow- tree.”
Have you forgotten your song? A song of deliverance. A song of rejoicing and praise. A song of worship. A song that attracts the Holy Spirit. A song of passion. A warrior’s song. A- battle song. A song of dance. A passionate song to God.
Life has a way of stealing or whitewashing your song. The devil intents to steal your song, primarily because in your song comes favor and breakthrough. The best part is, “Your song of deliverance, becomes someone else’s song of deliverance!” P.H
Like the young male Honeyeater Song bird, we too must re-learn God songs. Re-learn our song of worship, Re-learn our song of praise and re-learn our song of deliverance. Re-learn our song of love mixed with discipleship.
What has made you lose your song? Time? Mundane? The enemy called average? Maybe past hurt? Disappointment? Maybe someone else’s victory placed a sour note in your heart and mouth.
Q&A- What’s so devastating, or seemingly more important, that you would lose your song?
Zephaniah 3, the prophet Zephaniah address a people in trouble. With so much corruption among them, the prophet announced that God's judgment was coming. Thus, Psalm 137.
Ezra 2:41 states that, “Many singers were carried captives, These would a course take their instruments with them.”
I have a word from All Mighty God, “Nothing is as important than you singing your God song!”
Again, The people of Zion hung their harps in the willow trees.
Zephaniah 3:1-3NLT What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime! 2 No one can tell it anything; it refuses all correction. It does not trust in the Lord or draw near to its God. 3 Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
Again in, Psalm 137:2, Israel is in trouble, their pride takes them into captivity. The singers of Zion, the worshipers and choirs, along with their harps were mounted/placed on the willow trees.
Psalm 137:3TPT Our captors tormented us, saying, “Make music for us and sing one of your happy Zion-songs!”
When you come to the end of the road, because according to Jesus, in Luke 6, there are only two kind of foundations men build upon: 1 Rock solid. 2 Sinking sand.
The enemy made fun of Jerusalem, The enemy insulted Israels God songs. (You’re in Good company).
Matthew Henry, The land of Babylon was now a house of bondage to Israel, as Egypt had been in their beginning over 400 years of bondage.
Israel did not sing, and as the following verses show, she could not sing. Morgan writes, “Yet, there was a song in the silence, not heard of the cruel oppressors, but heard of Jehovah Himself. It was the song of the heart, remembering Jerusalem, counting it the chief joy of life.”
The chief joy of your life is your song. It’s personal, it’s part of who you are. Refuse to lose your song, but if you do, Know this, “God sings over you. He will deliver you.” P.H
Psalm 137:4-5TPT But how could we sing the song of the Lord in this foreign wilderness 5 May my hands never make music again if I ever forget you, O Jerusalem.
How can I sing again? How can I lift up my hands and voice unto God again?
God say’s in, Zephaniah 3:14NKJV Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!
When you can’t sing or rejoice, here’s God’s faithfulness.
Zephaniah 3:17AMP “The Lord your God is in your midst, A Warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with joy; He will be quiet in His love [making no mention of your past sins], He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
God say’s, “You might be in exile, but I will personally dance, spin and sing over you!”
It’s time to relearn your God song! P.H
