How Bible Songs Can Benefit You

As a young Christian we sang children's Bible songs such as “I am the Resurrection and the Life,” “Behold, Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock, Knock, Knock,” and “I Know Whom I have Believed”. 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. When the words of the Bible are locked into the rhythm of a song, this makes it much easier to learn them. Commercial products have capitalized on this truth. I can still recall advertising songs I learned as a child over 50 years ago!
Of course, the Bible is not written like poetry in a metric pattern, and thus it is more difficult to set it to music. 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.
Scripture memory songs not only help us memorize verses, they also help us remember the verses. I can recall numerous times when I think of a verse while speaking and can quote it exactly. 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. The answer was music. By singing the verse, they were much quicker about learning and remembering it.
This has also been for me a means of meditating on the Bible. As the song runs over and over in my mind, so do the words. Verses have come to mind in this way that were just what I needed for a given situation.
A good song will, in fact, bring out the meaning of a verse. One example is 2 Corinthians 5:21 that contains a misplaced modifier in modern English. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin” Obviously, Paul is not teaching that we are sinless, but Christ is. The meaning is clear; the song helped to clarify it for instruction.
Bible songs can present the Gospel in a way that is not offensive to unbelievers. 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.
Finally, Bible verse songs are a means of retaining Scripture as I get older. It is much more difficult for me to memorize Bible verses and remember them now, than it was when I was younger. But I can still remember a song and thus, music, for me, helps me learn and retain what I am learning.

By: Joy Mary

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God made music. The Bible is God’s Word. When the two are united, this results in a unique and timeless blessing available through Bible songs.