God wants to hear you sing

God wants to hear you sing when the waves are crashing round you
When the fiery darts surround you, when despair is all you see
God wants to hear your voice when the wisest man has spoken
and says your circumstance is as hopeless as can be,
That's when God wants to hear you sing.

My children and I are singing the song "God Wants to Hear You Sing" in church on Sunday night. Another part of the song says, "He loves to hear our praise on our sunny days... but when suffering comes along, and we still sing Him songs, that is when we bless the Father's heart"

To be honest, it's been hard to sing lately.  However, I was recently reminded of the importance to sing praise to God no matter what was going on in my life by a little bird.  Lately we've had a bird right outside our front door that sings it's little heart out all day long.  The strange thing is, when night falls and it is very dark outside, he still sings his little heart out.  I thought it was a bird that perhaps just forgot that night had come or perhaps he had more to sing and wasn't ready to quit, but this continued for about 2 weeks.  God convicted my heart through a little bird.  If a bird can sing even though darkness has fallen all around him and he has no idea of the prey that might be out there lurking, I should be able to sing praise to God even when it feels like night all around me. It took me almost two weeks to get the message God wanted to me to get from that little bird and then he was gone.  Perhaps he is now perched outside the door or window of someone else that needs to be reminded of the same thing.

Am I saying that life is now a bed of roses and I sing every day and night just like that bird?  No, I don't think God was trying to tell me that if I sing when things are going bad that the sun will instantly come out and I will have no more worries, that is just not how life is.  But if we sing to God when our heart is breaking, it encourages our hearts and reminds us that God loves us and that He cares when we are hurting.  Singing when we are alone and in the deepest pit of despair reminds us that God is with us wherever we are, He will never allow us to walk alone and He will give us the strength to make it through another day. 

Are you faced with problems that overwhelm you?  Is your heart breaking to a point that you are not sure if it will ever heal?  Do you feel like no one understands what you are going through?  Sing to God even though you might not feel like it, sing and remind your heart that God is there, He cares and He will be there for you.
Perhaps you are not going through a trial right now, but you know someone that is, remind that person to sing and remind them that there is not a problem too big for God.

Let's make a difference and SING!!!