A new song

Psalm 40:3: "He put a new song in my mouth a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD."

I've been thinking about this psalm a lot over the past few weeks. It's most likely because the song "40" by U2 has been circling in and around my ears for the past month (Buy it on iTunes). David waits for the Lord, and He hears him and answers him. God puts a new song in his mouth, a new heart that has recieved grace and been rescued from his destruction.

So how does David respond? With a new song, a praise to the one who rescued him. My question is this, "what is the song of my heart, and what is on the tip of my tongue when I talk, my thoughts and motivation for when I work, for how I play?"

Recently, the song on my heart has not been one that rejoices in the LORD. It is a complaint about the slow process of finding a job. It's impatience with events in my life not going the way I expected them too. It's a bitter song that gets angry at God for not doing the things that I want him to do. It's anxiety because although I know I don't have control over these things, I still believe I do, and I hate God for it.

I desperately want control over all the things I can't control. Yet it was God who rescued me from the pit, and it was me who called out for his help! So many times I want God to call down to me, and for me to rescue myself from his plan. Talk about not believing in the sovereignty of God!

What oozes out of you when life throws you things you can't control? Do you talk more harshly, become apathetic in work, lose motivation for seeking God? I do. But I am learning to remember who I am and where I've come from. C.S. Lewis said that people don't need as much instruction as they do reminders.

I need reminders of how God has rescued me from the slavery of sin and put me into his eternal inheritance out of his mercy. Beleiving this is a moment by moment choice that I must make each day, and how well I do this in many ways determines the song of my heart.

"But now in Christ Jesu you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." - Ephesians 2:13