NEW SONG
PSALM 98:1 (MSG)
Sing to GOD a brand-new song.
He’s made a world of wonders!
COLOSSIANS 3:16 (CEB)
Sing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Let your thankfulness surface as a song sung to God.
PRAYER
Lord God, you are worthy of a new song. All the old songs I've sung are unable to express appropriate gratitude for all the new that you are doing in my life. All the old songs are whining dirges that fail to take into account the incredible things you're doing. Help me to look past the negativity and on to the fresh and new that is sprouting up, drawn by the sunlight that radiates from Christ Jesus. This is wonderful! All that flows from my life will be a new song. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
