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od had His hand on this young man ful or how pitiful you may sound. Sing whose music not only would fill the loud enough to drown out those defeatheart of a depressed king overwhelmed by ing thoughts that normally clamour for blackness, but also would someday fill His attention. Release yourself from that cage written Word. Thus, David, with his primi- of introspective reluctance. SING OUT! tive stringed instrument, walked bravely SING OUT! You’re not auditioning for the church choir; you’re making melody with into that dark place where Saul was living. Saul was willing to try anything. “Provide your heart to the Lord your God! If you a man,” he says. “I don't care who it is. Bring listen closely when you’re through, you may hear the hosts him to me.” The Spirit-filled saint is a of heaven answering Somehow David’s song-filled saint. And your back for joy. music unleashed the Soft music for a caged feelings inside melody is broadcast right hard heart, that’s this tormented man into heaven—live—where what David provided and then soothed the God’s antenna is always for Saul. That’s the savage beast within. receptive, where the soul music that Christ By the time David left him, Saul was soothing strains of your song the Saviour provides, and that’s the place relieved. The evil presare always appreciated. we all must begin. He ence had departed. God used the gift of music to put David died for us. He rose from the dead to give into the very presence of the king’s cham- us the desire and the power to live a posiber. And the king not only found relief tive, fulfilling life free from the clutches of from his inner torturings, he found love in human depression and despair. He is our his heart for the young shepherd boy whose shepherd, and we are his sheep, needing the music of his voice. We can rejoice and music touched his soul. The Spirit-filled saint is a song-filled exult in God together. Let’s do more of it! saint. And your melody is broadcast right into heaven—live—where God’s Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Great Days with antenna is always receptive, where the the Great Lives (Nashville: W Publishing Group, soothing strains of your song are always 2005). Copyright © 2005 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. appreciated. Never mind how beauti-
