Praise The Lord !
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Psalm 150:6
A commercial jingle of the 1970s inspired a generation. Created as part of Coca Cola’s “The Real Thing” advert campaign, a British group called The New Seekers sang it as a full-length song that climbed to the top of music charts across Europe and then around the world. But the original radio version was sung by young people on a hilltop outside of Rome. Whimsical as it was, with visions of honeybees and fruit trees, many listeners resonated with the songwriter’s desire to teach the world to sing with the heart and harmony of love.
The apostle John describes something like that idealised dream, only vastly greater. He envisioned a song sung by “every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them” (Revelation 5:13). There’s nothing whimsical about this anthem. Nothing could be more realistic than the price paid by the One to whom this song is sung. Neither could there be anything more foreboding than the visions of war, death and consequence that His sacrifice of love would have to overcome.
Yet this is what it took for the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ to bear our sin and defeat death, overcome our fear of death, and teach all heaven and earth to sing—in perfect harmony. Praise the Lord!
Bible Reading
Revelation 5:8–14.
Prayer
Father in heaven, please help me to sense the wonder of what You’ have done to give me a song that can be sung in joy by everyone and every living creature. I bless You, and praise You through Your Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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