Like songbirds, we are creatures who are inclined to sing. We were created with this proclivity to sing out praises and God’s people have it in their new nature to sing out praises to the God who rescued them.
Psalm 8
As a family we have been working our way through the Psalms each night around the dinner table. I’ll admit that one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced during this time of social isolation has been keeping a 4 and 6 year old engaged with David’s lamentations and cries for help.
One night however, after I had finished reading through Psalm 8, my 6 year old daughter exclaimed “Ah, that was good!”.
Psalm 13
The Psalms are a repertoire of human emotion and that often makes us feel uncomfortable with them, but the very fact that they are included in the canon of Scripture should bring us some measure of peace. For example, the lamenting Psalms like Psalm 13, teach us that God is not angry with us when we grieve our current circumstances.