Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. – Psalm 98:1 It’s obnoxiously hard some days to have anything to be thankful for. The reason we have a hard time being thankful is because you and I look around and don’t find anything in our lives to marvel about. Everything loses its luster and the motions that take us through day to day, from and to, drains the energy from us drip by drip. You know that’s how you feel when the weather is dreary and wet, when there is nothing happy or enjoyable about your life and this is exactly the problem! The fissure between our so called faith and our reality is that we perceive the world differently than what our faith dictates. We then are responsible to turn around and adhere to a view that just doesn’t make sense. A prime example is this Psalm. It’s perfect when the roses smell like spring showers in our life, but when the world smells like deluge mixed with the right amount of chemical runoff, a Psalm makes us question what “marvelous” really means. This can only mean one thing for us who are trapped in between the spaces of believing truth, as it appears in the Bible, and our current reality: we need to make our reality the truth that appears in the Bible. It’s true– the Bible can sometimes sound a little bit too fantastic, but it’s supposed to. It does so for our sake. That is, it shows people coming to God when there is and should be nothing to be thankful for, God provides a reason for us to rejoice in a brand new song. It’s just how God interacts and wants to work with us. He wants to give us a new song to sing. In fact, the Psalmist writes that God, not only gives us a reason to sing new songs, but also works through situations where there is no thanks or hope because He is God and He wants to save us. I am not saying God causes the thankless, singles situations and circumstances in life; I am definitely saying that God redeems it and uses it for His purposes to hear new songs from our lips and our hearts. If you are facing situations and circumstances in your life right now that cause you to be song-less, bounce-less, and undeniably doubtful; you need to look for your salvation through the situation and circumstance. When you look, you will see God’s strong right hand (both figuratively and literally) amply able to pick you up when you grasp to it like a fish caught on a fishing hook. God will reel you into His salvation and you will be singing a new song because God will have done a new thing in your life. We all need to sing new songs every single day. How does your new song sound?