Sing a new song

From today's reading:  8 Burnt-offering and sin-offering you have not required,  and so I said, "Behold, I come."    3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;  many shall see, and stand in awe, and put their trust in the LORD.  Psalm 40: 8 & 3

It might seem strange that I have written the two verses in the wrong order, but that is the way that they make sense to me.  God does not desire burnt and sin offerings - what he desires is our presence.  He wants us to be present to him and open so that he can work in our lives to heal those things that need to be healed.  He wants us to be present to love and to be loved.  He wants us to be present so that we can become witnesses to God's goodness and love and power in the world to change the world.

The second part of this is the result of the first.  When we are present to the Lord, our hearts soar and burn with a new song - a song of joy and praise to God that cannot be stilled. We hear that song on the morning and the evening breeze as the birds sing and crickets chirp as they raise their voices to the Lord thanking him for another day.  We, too, raise our voices to praise God for his goodness and his love. It is a song to share, to draw others to the Lord so they, too, may know his great love.