breaking the hush

My spirit has been full of songs lately! From old hyms to the newest comtemporary! This is odd because, if anyone knows me, they know I can’t remember lyrics to save my life – but I try – or I make them up! How can I be singing? Well, I guess it’s like Paul and Silas, who praised God with shackled limbs and beaten and bruised backs. Fortunately, I’m not beaten and bruised (physically atleast) and I’m able to move freely behind these four walls. There hasn’t been any earthquake or crumbling down of cinderblocks. Not to say I’m not still expecting MY miracle!

Beth Moore puts it best in her book, “Get Out of that Pit,”

“Having a new song in our mouths doesn’t mean we’re completely out of the pain that caused our pit or the pain that our pit caused. It doesn’t even mean, if ours was a pit of sin, that all the consequences are necessarily behind us. It just means we’re no longer stuck. No longer defeated. No longer caked in mud. Our vision is returning. It’s a new day, God doesn’t hate us after all, and we can’t help but praise. The wind is blowing in our faces once again and once more hope springs eternal.”

You see, God has filled my pit and didn’t stop there. He filled it and continued to form a mountain on top! Needless to say, I am out of that”pit” and now stand at the base of my mountain and am on my way, starting to climb! During my journey, as the band plays on in my head, and I try to remember the lyrics, the best how they were originally intended, I will continue to sing, for God has put a new song in my heart!

“I waited patiently for the Lords help;

then He listened to me and heard my cry.

He pulled me out of a dangerous pit,

Out of the deadly quick sand.

He set me safely on a rock and made me secure.

He taught me to sing a new song,

A song og praise to our God.

Many who see this will take warning

And will put their trust in the Lord.”

~Psalms 40:1-3 (Good News Translation)

Breaking the Hush,

Shawn