Psalm 33:3 Play his praise on a grand piano! Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare. (The Message)
Psalm 33 is a praise song. It talks about making music with harps, trumpets ten-stringed lyres and choirs. Even the last verse in Psalm 32 says to Celebrate God. Sing together-everyone!
All I can think of is my youngest grandchildren, Natalee and Jacob. They love music of all kinds, they love to dance and sing and sometimes get all silly when they listen to certain songs.
During our praise songs at church, both of them will tilt their heads side to side, wave their arms, turn around in circles, clap their hands and at the end of the song, will yell, yeaaaaa!!!! Then ask for 'more'? They absolutely love the music.
Jacob has a Veggie Tales CD of Easter songs and has two favorites, 'The Easter Cow' and 'Christ the Lord is Risen Today', (totally opposite of each other). What he likes about 'Christ the Lord is Risen Today' is the part where they sing the hallelujah word. That word is stuck to him and on Easter when he heard the congregation start to sing it, he had the biggest smile his face could hold.
He sang the words hallelujah loud, almost yelling and focused on our pastor and followed his lead. Now Jacob can't carry a tune and he doesn't know the words to any songs, but at two, he doesn't care. He sings because he likes to and does it with enthusiasm.
The children in our churchs are watching us, all of us, not just the parents or the grandparents, everyone in the congregation. They watch to see how God is praised, they see if we are excited and belt out our songs or whether we have the mundane, oh well-have to sing-get it over with, attitude.
The Book of Psalms has many places where we are told to 'make a joyful noise unto the Lord'. Our hearts should be filled with songs of praise every day because God is a solid and good and faithful and loving God.
Nancy
