# The Song day 5 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. > ### Opening Prayer: *O Lord, as we spend time with you and your Word this day, let us hear the words of your Ancient Song; and let us listen closely for the Song of God that rises in our hearts. In Christ. Amen. (JLB)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 100 #### His Steadfast Love Endures Forever #### A Psalm for giving thanks. *100 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!3 Know that the Lord, he is God!It is he who made us, and we are his;[a] we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!5 For the Lord is good;his steadfast love endures forever,and his faithfulness to all generations.* #### Scripture for the Day: Exodus 15:1-21 #### The Song of Moses *15 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying,“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;the horse and his rider[a] he has thrown into the sea.2 The Lord is my strength and my song,and he has become my salvation;this is my God, and I will praise him,my father's God, and I will exalt him.3 The Lord is a man of war;the Lord is his name.4 “Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.5 The floods covered them;they went down into the depths like a stone.6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.* *8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap;he deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’* *10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?Who is like you, majestic in holiness,awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?12 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.* *13 “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.14 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.15 Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.* *16 Terror and dread fall upon them;because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as astone,till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased.* *17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.* *18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.”* *19 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them:“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”* #### Reading for Reflection: *When he awoke, the song was there. Its melody beckoned and begged him to sing it. It hung upon the wind and settled in the meadows where he walked. He knew its lovely words and could have sung it all, but feared to sing a song whose harmony was far too perfect for human ear to understand. And still at midnight it stirred him to awareness, and with its haunting melody it drew him with a curious mystery to stand before an open window. In rhapsody it played among the stars. It rippled through Andromeda and deepened Vega’s hues. It swirled in heavy strains from galaxy to galaxy and gave him back his very fingerprint. “Sing the Song!” the heavens seemed to cry. “We never could have been without the melody that you alone can sing.” (The Singer by Calvin Miller)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Thy Mercy, My God *Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,* *The joy of my heart. and the boast of my tongue;* *Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last,* *Hath won my affections, and bound my soul fast.* *Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here;* *Sin would reduce me to utter despair;* *But, through Thy free goodness, my spirits revive,* *And He that first made me still keeps me alive.* *Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,* *Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;* *Dissolved by Thy goodness, I fall to the ground,* *And weep to the praise of the mercy I’ve found.* *Great Father of mercies, Thy goodness I own,* *And the covenant love of Thy crucified Son;* *All praise to the Spirit, Whose whisper divine* *Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine.* *All praise to the Spirit, Whose whisper divine* *Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine.* ### Closing Prayer *Everything in all of creation, O Lord, is a unique song of yours. And when we sing our song—that song that is buried deeply within each of us—we are indeed being who we were made to be. We are in harmony (shalom) with the voice of our Maker. Help us to sing our song (Your song) clearly and fully this day. In the name of Jesus. Amen. (JLB)*