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Can You Sing in the Night?

12/1/2013

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LLLV13 12-2-13 Can You Sing in the Night   
A week ago on Wednesday evening as my compatriots and I walked into the chapel at the prison where we teach and preach, a large man, who has become a modern day Joseph in the Indiana Prison system, met us at the door and hugged us, while fighting back a tear. This man doesn’t cry. In a youthful rage he had killed three drug dealers that cheated him. All in a few hours. He was 19 and a drop out. Twenty years later he was notified of his mother’s leaving the Vale of Tears for the City Celestial. We were the only ones he told. He went right on with his class responsibilities, counseled several men in the chapel, and was singing his song in the night.

A great song writer who was acquainted with a different kind of grief, Ira Stanphill wrote a song of victory that our prisoner demonstrated. Here are a few of the lyrics:

"You can have a song 
In your heart in the night 
After every trial 
After every mile 
Anyone can sing 
When the sun's shining bright 
But you need a song 
In your heart at night.”

The idea behind the song is that it is easy to sing in the sunshine, but to sing as did Ira and Charles Weigle did when he wrote No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus requires the Spirit gifting you with a song in your night.

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1 Comment
David A Brown
12/1/2013 10:40:58 pm

As I talk to people about Jesus in my everyday walk in a country of plenty, I see the complacency of the average Joe about the need for the true Saviour Jesus Christ. Many unsaved folks today are looking to a False Saviour, our government, "Big Brother" , whatever, to supply their needs both spiritually and financially. The scenario in general is not much different for those for one reason or another who find themselves behind bars. There is an interesting observation/exception I noted while visiting a group of Christians in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Something I don't see often on the outside; an exuberance of the spirit in professing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What most Pastor's would give to have a group like them in their churches. If we on the outside would profess Christ to others the way my brothers on the inside do, we might just change the world.

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