“They shall sing of the ways of the Lord” (Psalms 138:5) 

 When the Christian leaves his burden at the foot of the cross, he can’t stop himself from singing of the ways of the Lord. The angels have their songs, but the songs of the redeemed tell of “things which angels desire to look into” (1 Peter 1:12). When John Bunyan’s Pilgrim was set free of guilt and shame, he leapt three times and sang, "Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be The Man that there was put to shame for me!" 

 Do you remember the day your chains fell off? Do you remember the place when Christ met you, and said, "I’ve loved you with an everlasting love; I’ve blotted out the cloud of your sins; they won’t be mentioned again forever". Oh! When the Lord first pardoned me, I was so joyous I couldn’t keep from dancing. I thought on the road home from where I was pardoned, I must tell the stones on the street how He has set me free. I was so full of joy, I wanted to tell every snow-flake falling around me of the wondrous love of Christ, who blotted out my sins. 

But it’s not only at the start of the Christian life that believers have a reason to sing. As long as the saint lives, he discovers increasing revelations of Christ, “the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” (Ephesians 1:18-19). “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together” (Psalms 34:1-3).