As
promised, a new day leads us further in our walk with God, and deeper into his
thoughts. This morning left me with the feeling David described as, “How precious to me are
your thoughts,
O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand.”[1]
What confronted me is that, there are so many
cross-references to the description of the sixth seal,[2] it is like layering line upon line of harmony all
around the melody of this revelation. The melody line sings for itself; but the
parallel Scriptures add thoughts that harmonize so beautifully with this tune that
the weight of the stanza falls even heavier upon our hearts.
Journeying through the Revelation Museum as a Gentile
traveler has left me wondering how the Jewish believers of the first century
heard what was read aloud. I try to picture an early church congregation listening
to what was read, and everyone working together to put into practice what God
revealed.[3] I imagine that the Jewish believers would have
quickly recognized the connection between passages in Revelation and passages
in their previous Scriptures, what we Gentiles call the Old Testament. I wonder
what it would have been like to have discussions after church and hear my
Jewish brothers explain how what we just heard caused so many other Scriptures
to pop into their heads.
For me, I have to rely on referencing-tools to guide me to
applicable passages. Sometimes there are few cross-references; today there were
many. I know in my heart that all the notes sounded amazing together, but I
will have to listen to this strain of music a while longer to see how to write
the musical notation.
The essence of today’s time with God was that my heavenly
Father has much more to say on this passage than yesterday’s introductory
meditations revealed. It was like entering the throne room of God, where God’s
thoughts are so much higher than our own that we could not possibly expect to
ever think them all, and his ways are so much higher than our own that we could
never expect to be everywhere he is, joining everything he is doing.[4]
Rather, there is a symphony of the kingdom of heaven. It is
playing in perfect timing to the Conductor of the universe. His baton sweeps
his thoughts into music so that his Church, throughout the world, down to the
most inconspicuous member of the body of Christ in any location, can hear their
part of the score, sing the notes that are set before them, and know that it is
creating a sound of harmonies that are, literally, out of this world.
Tomorrow I will begin exploring the cross-references to the
melody of the sixth seal. Today I will enjoy the sound of the God-song as it
settles into my soul. I already know it will be some expression of what brother
Zephaniah wrote many centuries ago: “The LORD your God is in your midst, a
mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he
will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”[5]
The
wonder of wonders is that, God invites his children to sing along!
© 2014 Monte Vigh ~
Box 517, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise
noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible,
English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
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