the everlasting song

"We'll join the everlasting song, and crown him Lord of all,
we'll join the everlasting song, and crown him Lord of all."

 

Revelation 15:³ They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: 
      " Great and marvelous are Your works,
      Lord God Almighty!
      Just and true are Your ways,
      O King of the saints"

 

We, of course, do not know when we will transition from this life to the next.  Recently a few young adults in the families of our congregation have died suddenly from disease or natural cause.  One was a young woman who had just given birth to a son 4 weeks prior to her death.  These young people had discovered the love of the Lord early in life and reflected His reality to many others.  Now they are directly in the presence of the Lord in Heaven.  I thought about the readiness we all need to have to make that transition.  Our pastor spoke on the subject yesterday as well.  For some reason I thought about life here like a song that we sing.  As we go through our days you might say that we sing different songs...songs of joy, sadness...songs of self and songs of selflessness.  Songs capture and present our emotions and are a doorway to our hearts.  We know that the saints of Heaven are singing praises to the Father and the Son from the book of Revelation.  That is the "everlasting song" that we will one day join that is identified from the verse in "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name".  One day we'll be singing a song in this life and find ourselves suddenly in the presence of the eternal song.  My hope is that those songs will fit well together...that the song I start in this life will seem fully appropriate as I enter Heaven and pick up the eternal song there.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith