How Can I Keep From Singing?

I got my license today! Thank the Lord! It’s definitely a load off my mind. Thanks to all of you who prayed that it would come in time. So, barring any other accidents, this Thursday I will be taking the electrical union entrance test. Please pray for me!

On the way home from work today, I was listening to Christian radio. One of the guys talking read Romans 8:37, “But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” When I got home I looked it up in the Bible. What Paul is saying we overwhelmingly conquer is explained in verse 35. They are tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and the sword. Isn’t it great that through Jesus we can “overwhelmingly conquer” these things! We don’t need to just hope that we can withstand them; we can be “more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (as the KJV puts it.) I’ve read and heard this many times before, but this really gave me encouragement today.

I love the words to the song below. It’s a great praise song and covers a lot of what the Lord does for us. We never can say enough, His love is so amazing. It’s great to know that He’s always there for me, even “in the darkest night.” And then in the end, I’ll get to “sing with the angels and the saints around the throne!”

How Can I Keep From Singing by Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman

There is an endless song echoes in my soul,
I hear the music ring;
And though the storms may come,
To the Rock I cling.

How can I keep from singing your praise?
How can I ever say enough; how amazing is Your love.
How can I keep from shouting Your name?
I know I am loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing.

I will lift my eyes in the darkest night,
For I know my Savior lives;
And I will walk with You, knowing You’ll see me through,
And sing the songs You give.

How can I keep from singing your praise?
How can I ever say enough; how amazing is Your love.
How can I keep from shouting Your name?
I know I am loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing.

I can sing in the troubled times, sing when I win;
I can sing when I lose my step and fall down again;
I can sing cause You pick me up, sing cause You’re there;
I can sing cause You hear me, Lord, when I call to You in prayer;
I can sing with my last breath, sing for I know
That I’ll sing with the angels and the saints around the throne.

Keep the Faith!