“My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.” Psalms 57:7 NIV
David wrote this psalm while he was hiding from Saul. Saul was searching for David to kill him because of how jealous Saul had become of David and his success. David was now running for his life with Saul in pursuit. While hiding David wrote this psalm to express how he will not stop praising and worshipping God even when things don’t go his way, even when he was facing death if he was caught. His heart is focused on God and he is not going to waver because he is facing trouble. Instead he states that he will remain faithful to God, and he will sing and make music.
We don’t have to be accomplished musicians or singers to make music and sing to God. He loves to hear us just as we are. He made us and He already knows what we sound like so we don’t need to worry about disappointing him with how we sound. The disappointment instead would come if we chose to not sing and make music as we worship Him or if we didn’t keep our heart focused on Him.
God wants us to keep our heart focused on Him because His heart is focused on us. In times of trouble we run to God, which is what we should do, but I would argue that we should be running to Him or focused on Him in the good times as well.
Is your heart locked on God? Do you think about God daily, talk to God daily, contemplate what He would like you to do in situations throughout your day? I pray everyone does because He is thinking about us daily. Do you worship Him so genuinely that you are singing and making music as if no one is listening? I hope so, He deserves to have us worship Him with everything that we have.