So, a busy wife and mother was rushing around cleaning the house while no one else was home. She was vacuuming with the attachment wand when her best friend called. They talked while she continued to vacuum. She was distracted. Suddenly, with a little bump, her vacuum sucked up a solid object! She had vacuumed up the family parakeet, Tweety!
Quickly hanging up on her friend, she shut off the vacuum and cracked it open and dug through the dirt and lint to find little Tweety. He was covered in dust and lint so she shook him
till his little eyes rolled back and then she thrust him under the running water at the kitchen sink. Then, thinking that he was too wet to go back into his cage, she took up her hair dryer and “fluffed” him. Then she put poor, dazed Tweety back into his birdcage before her children got home.
A few days later, one of her children’s friends asked, “How’s Tweety?” Her son replied, “Well, Tweety doesn’t sing anymore. He just sits on his perch and stares.”
From Tweety’s perspective, he was minding his own business, whistling a tune and watching Mom work when he was suddenly plucked up, slimed, shaken, water-boarded, and hurricane-d. No wonder he doesn’t sing anymore!
Life can come at you fast. You never know what’s gonna hit you next. Sometimes I feel like Tweety. I’m suddenly slimed, shaken and song-less. Because life can steal your song.
People treat us badly, threaten or rob from us. “People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty. Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night? Job 35:10 (NLT)
Trouble frightens and silences us. Our eyes turn down. Why me? Who can help me? “For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.” Psalm 32:7 (NLT)
Wisdom is gone and difficulties turn us into fools. If only there was wisdom for dark times. “Your decrees have been the theme of my songs wherever I have lived.” Psalm 119:54 (NLT)
Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time, went deaf. He wrote 722 works in all genres: symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas and opera. His great work was music and he gradually went completely deaf. Imagine not being able to hear an orchestra playing your masterpieces! Stories are told about him gradually resorting to all sorts of hearing aids until finally, he was completely deaf. He despaired of life. But his music gave him inspiration. His Ninth Symphony is a timeless work of art, and he wrote it after he had gone completely deaf!
This world can keep us from hearing God, stealing away our song. But God has been giving people songs for generations. Turn to Him in your hour of need and sing His praises!
Pastor Jonathan
I know I shall see in His beauty
The King in whose way I delight;
Who lovingly guardeth my footsteps,
And giveth me songs in the night.
–4th stanza of “Redeemed” by Fanny Crosby
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