Lyrically Challenged

An article I ran across drove home the point that we need to think about what we sing. It read:

“ Alas the area of our singing has become a trysting place for me. I’ve spent many a direful night, rent asunder, with the ebon pinion brooding o’er the vale. What e’er betide, the bowers will not fail, even from ether-plains. It’s time to raise our Ebenezer’s and fain become gladsome. In mirth we have moaned, our suits distained. Now is the time to have our spiritual thirst assuaged as we fain the supernatural among the zephyrs wafting in the dale from days of yore.”  

Many of these phrases, we have sung all our lives, but have never understood what they mean. When we sing not only do we praise God but teach and admonish one another (Colossians 3:17) If we never learn what we are singing, how can we be taught anything? If we simply overlook the phrases, we will never fully understand some of the most beautiful points of the songs we sing. Our singing should not be something we do without thinking about what we are saying, or we run the risk of missing the point of singing altogether.