We’ve recently pondered the different Hebrew words for our word, “praise,” realizing that praise to God doesn’t always mean we bubble over with happy emotional feelings. But there is one word that’s over-the-top, joy-filled, saturated with exuberant praise. The book of Revelation gives us beautiful details, offering us hope as we walk through today’s suffering.
What is the loud exclamatory, “bursting with praise” word in Revelation, as we peer into heaven and discover what happens at His throne?
The throngs praise God for His unchanging character, His kingdom reign, its consummation, and the wedding of the Lamb. This is our assured and glorious hope, in Christ!
Hallelujah! God is preparing us for a wedding!
Beloved in Christ, He’s preparing us for this grand and glorious wedding. He’s going to clothe us, as His bride, with “fine linen, bright and pure” (Rev. 19:8a). Can you imagine it? That means that today, by the power of His indwelling Spirit, God’s purifying us, making us more and more like Jesus as He sanctifies us. That fine linen? It’s “the righteous deeds of the saints” (Rev. 19:8b).
So that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish (Eph. 5:27 ESV).
Can you imagine the singing at God’s throne?
Those believers who’ve walked through tremendous suffering on earth, enduring it with faith in Jesus and keeping God’s commandments (Rev. 14:12) will hear the
great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, Hallelujah! (Rev. 19:6).
Help me to praise You, God, singing songs of praise as I suffer, because You are worthy
In today’s suffering, let’s humble ourselves before God and pray for our needs, brought on by this hard trial. As we pray, let’s ask Him to help us endure with faith, by His grace.
More and more, I’m realizing one of the gifts God’s given to us…to help us endure…is praising Him for who He has revealed Himself to be in His Word, as we anticipate that glorious wedding day. Could these words be ours today?
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name (I Chron. 29:11-13 ESV).
Hallelujah!
We recently praised God for our gospel hope in Christ, as we sought His help. Now, we look to the new heaven and earth and the consummation of all of His kingdom work, because of our hope in Christ.
Beloved, we can’t see it yet…but we can imagine it. Can you imagine the singing?
So we can praise Him today, singing Christ’s hope INTO our suffering, along with the multitudes at His throne, because He is worthy of all our praise, our Lord and King.
To the great One in Three
Eternal praises be,
Hence evermore.
His sovereign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
(“Come, Thou Almighty King,” author unknown, before 1760)
Joining the singing at God’s throne
Know what? When we sing songs like Psalm 150, bursting into “hallelujah” praise, our emotions often start to stir, don’t they? We begin to sing, as the bride of Christ waiting and preparing to marry her Lamb, loving and adoring our Savior more and more. Could this be His beautiful, grace-filled gift to us as He prepares us for our eternal home with Him, in our suffering today?
Can you imagine the singing at God’s throne?
Beloved in Christ, our Lamb is worthy and our King is bringing together His bride.
Right now.
Into the global and personal suffering of His saints, the Lord is bringing His kingdom to its final day.
Hallelujah!
This week’s playlist gives us lyrics of praise to sing to Him now, as we wait to see Jesus on that glorious day. We join brothers and sisters in Christ in videos from around the world to do so this week.
Dear beloved, can you imagine the singing at God’s throne? Let’s imagine it together, just a tiny bit, by singing praise to God this week!
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