Shout it from the Mountops

"Sing to the Lord a new song . . . you who go down to the sea, . . . . raise their voices . . . . let them shout from the mountaintops."

My daughter loves to sing, not songs that she learns but NEW songs, songs that she makes up. We were walking home when LanLan was singing another made up song. well, it was more shouting than singing. At the top of her lungs she was singing "Tonight is Jesus' birthday, Jesus is God!" over and over again.

I was laughing and thinking about this verse in Isaiah, "shout from the mountaintops". I wanted to tell her to stop shouting and that she was disrupting the neighborhood (and to keep me from embarrassment) but I didn't. I was reminded how we should always be so excited to share the Good News, be excited to celebrate Christ and what he has done for us. I know that I don't, but I am thankful to my daughter for reminder.

Isaiah 42:10-12
¹⁰Sing to the LORD a new song,
his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
you islands, and all who live in them.

¹¹ Let the desert and its towns raise their voices;
let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice.
Let the people of Sela sing for joy;
let them shout from the mountaintops.

¹² Let them give glory to the LORD
and proclaim his praise in the islands.