Sing a new song to the Eternal;
sing in one voice to the Eternal, all the earth.

Sing to the Eternal of all the good things He’s done.

Psalm 96 (The Voice)

I think the ultimate instrument is the voice.

I love a lot of contemporary solo music as well as the classics. It touches my soul so often and songs play back in my head in the night. Music carries messages that comfort and challenge and lift my soul. Something marvelous happens in corporate worship when voices singing together are not drowned out by amplified instruments and a singer with a microphone.

People talk about singing a new song and a new sound arising. I wonder if the new sound is an old sound we have forgotten? The Bible speaks of God singing over us and of us responding to Him with song when we realize that He really does love us.

There is something in choral music that speaks of unity in the Spirit. How I long to hear the entire family of God joining their voices in praise to the Creator.

Sometimes, in the night, I do.

And the angels join in.