How Songs of the Bible Can Aid You

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When I first became a Christian, I was introduced to Bible songs such as “Behold, Behold,” “I Know Whom I Have Believed,” and “Great is Thy Faithfulness ” . For many of them I didn’t even know I was singing Scripture. Later, when I came across the verse in my reading, I was surprised that I already knew it.

Bible verse songs are a wonderful means of memorizing Scripture. Music has a rhythm and when that rhythm locks the words of the Bible into it, the verse is much easier to recall. Commercial products have capitalized on this truth. I can still sing commercials I heard 50 years ago!

Of course, Scripture was not written as metric rhyming poetry and this makes it more difficult to match the words to a melody. Ways to do so successfully is the subject of another article. But when it is done well, the words flow with the tune and each note demands the correct word.

Learning Scripture memory songs also helps us remember the verses. When I am speaking, I often think of a verse set to music and am able to quote it accurately. However, mentally I am actually singing it in my mind quickly. The rhythm and accents of the song was the aid to remember it.

I started writing Bible verses to music when I first taught third grade in a Christian school. Some of the students were very slow at learning their memory verse and I wanted to help them. Music was the answer. When I sang the memory verse to them, they could pick it up and remember it much more quickly.

This has also been for me a means of meditating on the Bible. The song plays over and over in my mind and so do the words. The Spirit has thus used this to apply the Bible verse to my life in numerous situations.

A song can actually clarify the mean of a verse. For example, when I was writing a song for 2 Corinthians 5:21, I wanted to correct the misplaced modifier in the KJV translation. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin” Obviously, the last phrase refers to Christ, not us. The song for this verse, by repeating the words, clarifies this.

Bible Songs can also be a way to present the Gospel. Several years ago I taught my class all of the verses in the Roman’s Road set to music and then we sang them for a parent assembly. The plan of salvation was clearly presented to any relatives who didn’t know the Lord.

Bible verse songs can help those of us who are aging to retain what we need to know. I find it much more difficult to memorize anything and retain it now than I did when I was younger. However, I can still remember a song and through this means can learn and retain verses.

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