Singing His Song

Singing His SongHow can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?
Psalms 137:4 NIV

We live in times where people have grown hostile toward Christianity. The world is none too happy with those that try to live according to the scripture. I suspect their resentment stems from the fact that we remind them of God. We carry the aroma of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:15), and they just don't like it. They don't want to hear about their sin and God's redemptive love and His judgment. They want us to abandon the sound teaching of God and embrace their opinions, ideas and preferences. They want to silence anything that sounds like God by calling it hate, narrow-mindedness, and out dated thinking. They tell us, "Sing a song we like. Give us a word that will tickle our fancy." (2 Timothy 4:3)

It feels lonely to be the object of scorn. It feels even worse when you are scorned by other believers that hold a "world view", instead of a "Christ view." I admit to feeling a bit like my spirit has been broken, sort of disillusioned about God's call on my life. Is there a point to sharing Christ with people that only think of you as an old and useless religious fool? As a Christian, I feel like a foreigner in a strange land. How can I sing His song in this place, among these people?

I'll sing His song because of the hope I have in Christ! The day is coming when tears of pain will be a distant memory and death will have lost its sting (Revelation 21:4). When my circumstances are void of hope or joy, I will remember what the Lord has promised to those who trust in Him and persevere to the end. When I think of the goodness of the Lord, I feel a song coming on.