Old Song New Song
I really enjoy music. I’ve grown up around music all my life. My grandmother played guitar her whole life. She even played when she was in the nursing home the last several years of her life. She had some “Appalachian Influence” mixed with a life lived in Kentucky. I can remember as a kid playing guitar with a neighbor who was a fiddle player. It was my first experience playing along with other musicians. I guess it would be my first “band experience”. I still enjoy playing guitar and singing songs that honor God. I believe that God created music. I believe that music really blesses the heart of God and certainly lifts my heart for sure.
There is the once scene in heaven where John, in the Revelation, sees what looks like a glass sea mixed with fire (not sure how that worked) with the redeemed of the Lord, each with a harp given to them by God. Check this out….
3 And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your works,
O Lord God, the Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations.
4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before you,
for your righteous deeds have been revealed.”(Revelation 15:3-4 NLT)
I’m always speaking of the book of Revelation as probably the most symbolic book in the Bible. So many theologians and biblical scholars have made decisions that some of this book is literal and some is symbolic. I see most, if not all of it as symbolic. I do think that there is a bit of a glimpse into heaven which is obviously indescribable to the human eye. We have never seen anything like it, so it’s hard to describe something that you have no idea how to describe it or what words would do the description justice. I believe that we were created to worship so there will be worship in heaven. I also believe there will be songs. I’m not sure about electric guitars, drums and sound systems. I do believe that the Lord loves songs from our heart to His. I think somehow there will be songs and music in heaven.
I’m humbled and grateful for the gift of music that I and my family have been blessed with over the years. I’m happy and filled with joy to express that gift of music from my heart to the Lord’s heart.
Pressing On!
Dwayne