For the choir director.

A psalm of David.

He put a new song in my mouth, 

a hymn of praise to our God. 

Many will see and fear,

and they will trust in the Lord.

Psalms 40:3 CSB

David is a song writer and a musician so he may well have songs in his head and he's writing here literally about new songs.

But I think it's really shorthand for what's governing his heart, what the core things are in him that have shifted from when he felt like he was walking in mud, when everything felt desolate. 

The "song" at his core is a hymn of praise, because he has seen or experienced God at work, moving him from despair to hope, from the mud to the rock.

And it's evident in his life. Others see it. 

The song at our core is evident in our life. It's not our circumstances, not what's happening today, but how we live and love in today. 

May we let Jesus keep writing and rewriting the song at the core of who we are. It's a song that starts on the rock, a place where the view is different.

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