Heart Tracks - Night Songs

"Where is God my Creator, the One who gives songs in the night?" Job 35:10

Back in the long ago 1960's, there was a popular top 40 song that had the lyric, "We'll sing in the sunshine, we'll laugh every day." Singing in the sunshine is not difficult. Most any of us can do it. How many though can sing sweet songs to Him in the darkness? How many "night songs" do you and I know?

I believe the sweetest song that any may sing to Him are those sung in the darkness. That place, or those places, where we cannot see Him, or even sense Him. Those places where we must press on, with only the promise of His presence to hold to. Those who are truly connected to His heart will know such places. He will be the One who leads us to and through them. He is the God who, as His Word says, often approaches "covered in darkness." Nothing of our natural sense may perceive Him. Even our spiritual senses may not "see" Him. Yet He calls us to believe He is there. That He is with us, and that His love and care have not diminished. That He will carry us through. That He will lead us home. His heart for us is enlarged, moved when we can go on with Him not only in trust, but singing to Him our song. Our song of trust, faith, hope, and love. The sweetest song. The night song.

The world has long had the phrase "whistling in the dark." It's meant in a very negative way. The thought is that the whistler is doing so in false hope and courage. A kind of denial as to how desperate, even hopeless the situation is. This is not the song of the surrendered heart. That heart can sing a night song of joy, because it, like Jobs, is one that knows "my Redeemer lives." And because He lives, we not only can "face tomorrow," but we do so in confident, holy expectation of Him. Not expectations of what we want Him to do, but expectation of His continually revealed and displayed goodness and love. To walk in such faith and expectation will always yield a heart that knows how to compose beautiful and eternal night songs. Songs that I believe are the most beautiful to His ears.

I don't believe we ever compose the songs that are eternal in the times of sunshine. The song I mention from the 60's was a passing tune. Very few remember it today. It is those songs composed in the times of pain, danger, desert, and wilderness that ring out in heaven. Such songs minister to His heart. I believe they are continually heard in the throne room of the Father. They come from hearts bonded to His in and through every circumstance and need. Through and in the deepest darkness and greatest pain. Night songs given to Him. Of such is the music of heaven composed. May we sing those songs to Him....in all places.

Blessings,
Pastor O