Colossians 3:16

Colossians 3:16 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. Our verse for today reminds us that singing is important in church. We are not just to sing songs to be doing it, but singing should serve a purpose. Our verse says that our singing should teach and admonish. The word admonish means to warn. So the songs that we sing should have words that teach and warn us about serious Bible principles. Songs should not just take up time before the preaching; the songs themselves should do some of the preaching. And songs have another advantage: they often have a catchy tune that we remember. And the words are in poetry form and rhyme so that we can easily remember them. The songs that we learn in church will be remembered during the week. We can remind ourselves of Bible truth during the week even when we aren’t at church. The songs go with us. But here is the problem: we should be careful to listen to, and learn only solid Bible-based songs. We want the right songs to be going around in our heads, not the wrong ones!