Reflections on the Psalms (Psalm 6)

⁴ Turn, LORD, and deliver me; 

save me because of your unfailing love. 

⁵ Among the dead no one proclaims your name.

Who praises you from the grave?

God's word tells us that no one among the dead proclaims His name.  While that may seem like an obvious statement think about it for a second.  God's word also says that before we are in a saving relationship with Him we ARE the walking dead.  We are dead in our sin, we are the walking dead.  When God does something amazing in your life you die to your sin and are raised to Christ.  

So its no wonder when people see Christians worship they don't understand it.  In some ways reflecting on this helps me as a worship leader.  It reminds me that sometimes there is nothing that I can do to get someone to sing the praise of God.  No song, or setting, or number of people, or right arrangement can do that.  It must be God moving that person from light to darkness, from death to life, from a slave to sin to a slave to righteousness, from the walking dead to a risen child of God.

And the promise comes in the previous verse.  When we cry out to God to deliver us, to save us from ourselves He will.  Gods love is an unfailing love.  It is steadfast and true.  Finally, I am reminded that as the church its our job to call these people from death to life by living and proclaiming the gospel.  So while our songs of praise may sound strange to the ears of the dead, its all the more reason to sing them.  Songs that proclaim our story, our testimony and our praise.