Is There A New Song In Your Heart?

Is There A New Song In Your Heart?

Was just reading this passage this morning:

2 Chronicles 29:27-28 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel. And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

A looong time ago (in 2004), I wrote a devotional on this passage (which I encourage you to take the time to read):

The Song Of The Altar

In the years since then I have come to see the opposite of this principle become a reality in the lives of many Christians - they have stopped dying to themselves daily, stopped being living sacrifices to the Lord because they got comfortable in their compromise and lack of separation (from sin, from the world, from worldy or ungodly “christians” or teachers) - and they have lost that song in their hearts. For some it has never returned.

Oh sure, they may have worldly happiness - but no ongoing spiritual joy. No new songs bubbling up in their souls. It is interesting to note that the phrase “new song” is used seven times in the Old Testament, and twice in the New Testament. (See Psalm 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9; 149:1; Isaiah 42:10; Rvelation 5:9; 14:3.) 9 is symbolic of fruitfulness. If you have lost your song, your joy, have you also lost your fruitfulness because you are no longer walking humbly in God’s grace and are no longer thankful or grateful?

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Grace is defined by Strong's as, “graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude).” Grace is charis, and comes from the root word meaning joy.

Ouch! No grace, no joy - and therefore, no song in the soul - no new songs of praise and worship. No melody in our hearts unto the Lord because we have stopped letting His Holy Spirit and His Word be the guide in our day to day lives.

Ephesians 5:18-20 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Colossians 3:16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Have you lost your joy, your song? Be honest with yourself and with the Lord. Have you continually been giving in to the world, the flesh, and the Devil? Maybe it’s time to take stock, wash your life and heart with the water of the Word and confess those sins to God, be washed and cleansed in the blood of the Lamb, pull up the slack in those areas you have compromised and disobeyed the Lord in, and PUT YOUR ALL BACK ON THE ALTAR!

Leviticus 1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Only then will the song rise again - and only then will your life be a sweet savour to the Lord, as He wants it to be.

I have heard this quote many years ago, and it is still true:

“The problem with a living sacrifice is it keeps crawling off the altar!”

Get back on the altar, take up your cross, and die to yourself daily. Then that new song will be filling your heart and drowning out the sounds of the world once again.

November 30th, 2025
Jerry Bouey