Morning, February 1
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“They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.”
Psalm 138:5
The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is
when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even
the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture
which gushes from the inmost soul of the forgiven child of God. You
know how John Bunyan describes it. He says when poor Pilgrim lost
his burden at the Cross, he gave three great leaps, and went on his
way singing—
“Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me!”
Believer, do you recollect the day when your fetters fell off? Do you remember the place when Jesus met you, and
said, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love; I have blotted out as
a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud thy sins; they shall
not be mentioned against thee any more forever.” Oh! what a sweet season is that when Jesus takes away the pain of
sin. When the Lord first pardoned my sin, I was so joyous that I could
scarce refrain from dancing. I thought on my road home from the house
where I had been set at liberty, that I must tell the stones in the
street the story of my deliverance. So full was my soul of joy, that
I wanted to tell every snow-flake that was falling from heaven of
the wondrous love of Jesus, who had blotted out the sins of one of
the chief of rebels. But it is not only at the commencement of the
Christian life that believers have reason for song; as long as they
live they discover cause to sing in the ways of the Lord, and their
experience of his constant lovingkindness leads them to say, “I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be
in my mouth.” See to it, brother, that thou magnifiest the Lord this day .
“Long as we tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.”