Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Revelation 14:2-3
“And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne.” (Revelation 14:2-3)
They are the redeemed in Heaven, and they are singing in glorious harmony. There are no solo performances, but an innumerable people with one voice as powerful as the rushing of many waters. Imagine standing near Niagara Falls and singing to harp music in the noise of roaring water as it falls from the heights above.
They sing a new song before the throne. No one can learn it but the redeemed. They alone know what it was to have been lost, broken, and have no future but death. Now they are singing because they have been found, made new, and are eternally alive. To sing before the throne of God does not require that we are talented, but that we have been faithful in this life. Faithfulness is always in tune with God.
A joy in ministry has been the singing that I have heard by folks who are now numbered in the heavenly choir. These are the ones who stood on earth, but sang with their hearts in Heaven. These faithful friends of God love to sing to their Redeemer and Lord.
God alone knows the hearts that have been touched when his singers have given their best to Him. “My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.” (Psalms 71:23)
“When all of God’s singers get home, Where never a sorrow will come; There’ll be “no place like home,”. When all of God’s singers get home. As We sing here on earth, songs of sadness or mirth, ‘Tis a foretaste of rapture to come. But our joy can’t compare with the glory up there, When all of God’s singers get home!”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray