By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me — a prayer to the God of my life. —Psalm 42:8.
I have always loved music. To this day, songs help unlock the part of me that is most open to God. Songs help me declare my love for him and offer my praise to him. But as the psalmist said so many centuries ago, and I find it is still true for me today: his song is with me at night, especially on those nights when sleep is hard to find and I need reassurance of his love. Even when I can’t remember what I dreamed the previous night, I often awaken to a praise song that had been sung over me (Zephaniah 3:17), with me, and by me in my sleep — “…at night his song is with me — a prayer to the God of my life … the Lord [who] directs his love” to me!