When people have no hope then they do not sing. I am reminded of the Psalmist who said, "By the rivers of
Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung
our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded
songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing
the songs of the Lord while
in a foreign land?" Psalm 137
However the people in the days of the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus were people who sang. Mary sang the magnificat where she magnifies the Lord in her song. Zachariah sang the benedictus where he sings of the Lord's visitation and finally in Luke 2 Simeon sings nunc dimittis and he sings because he has seen the Lord's glory.
Why do we sing? We sing because we have hope. We see a world in trouble but we see a God who is in control. We know that God will someday step into history and everything will be made right. Mary, Zachariah and Simeon all sang because they saw that God was moving in their day. Do we have something to sing about?
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