This is an activity I sometimes do in my personal devotional time. Try taking a well-beloved hymn and find Scriptural backing for the truths taught in the lyrics. For me, it makes the hymn more precious and meaningful as I sing it. Here is one well-known hymn that I did recently.
Loved with everlasting love[1], led by grace that love to know;[2]
Gracious Spirit from above, Thou hast taught me it is so![3]
O this full and perfect peace![4] O this transport all divine![5]
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.[6]
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.[7]
Heav’n above is softer blue[8], Earth around is sweeter green![9]
Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen;[10]
Birds with gladder songs o’erflow, flowers with deeper beauties shine, [11]
[1] Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore, with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
[2] 2 Thessalonians 2:16 “Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,”
[3] John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
[4] Isaiah 26:3 “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
[5] Psalms 30:1 “A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.”
[6] Song of Solomon 2:16 “My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.”
[7] Jeremiah 31:33b “…I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
[8] Psalms 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
[9] Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
[10] Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they [Christless] are without excuse:”
[11] Luke 12:27 “Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
