Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Songs In The Night

While thumbing through a book of Christian quotes and anecdotes, I came upon the following statement: “Some of the sweetest songs have been wrung out of life’s bitterest trials. Many a song that is sung in the sunlight was composed in the darkest night watches” (JBN).

It brought to mind a hymn we used to sing, the first verse and chorus of which, is as follows:

What though the way be lonely

And dark the shadows fall;

I know where’er it leadeth,

My Father planned it all.

         Chorus:

I sing through the shade and the sunshine,

I’ll trust Him whatever befall;

I sing for I cannot be silent — 

My Father planned it all.

It also brought to mind a couple of verses from the Psalms: “In the night His song shall be with me” (Psalm 42:8). “I call to remembrance my song in the night” (Psalm 77:6). How good it is for us to learn to sing and give thanks no matter what the circumstance.