Majestic sounds

I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, ‘Alleluia!’– Revelation 19:1

A little boy named Philip was walking down the street of a small Pennsylvania town when he heard a sound that had never before reached his ears. It was that of a piano. Ten-year-old Philip Bliss was so enchanted by its sound that he walked right into the house from which it came.

When the woman at the piano saw the boy, she stopped her playing. Philip said, "Oh, please, play some more!" Unflattered by his obvious delight, she ordered him out of her house. She had failed to understand how majestic those notes sounded to that youngster. She had no way of knowing that one day he would become a gifted writer of many well-loved hymns.

Imagine a person with an ear for music hearing for the first time a beautiful composition on the piano with its soaring chords and varieties of sounds. Now imagine hearing another musical sound for the first time – a vast choir of the redeemed in heaven. In Revelation we read that someday in heaven thousands will join their voices with "harps of God" in singing, "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty!" (15:3).

As we anticipate being part of that heavenly music, let’s begin now to praise our matchless God and Savior, to whom all honor and glory are due. – J. David Branon

The saints of all ages in heaven sing praise

With voices and harps to the Ancient of Days;

No music on earth with that sound can compare,

Yet in that vast chorus our voices will share. – Dennis De Haan

READ: Revelation 15

Singing God’s praises will never go out of style.

The Bible in one year:

• Esther 9-10

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