Words can be beautiful or ugly, uplifting or demoralizing, encouraging or discouraging, loving or hateful. I love beautiful words. I love words that lift the soul. I love words that bring encouragement to life.
We can all look back on our lives and remember words that changed everything for us … words such as “I love you,” “will you marry me,” “you are going to have a baby,” or words like “you have cancer,” “you are being laid off,” “I want a divorce.” It only takes a few words to change the course of your life.
At some point during this holiday season, we will probably hear the glorious music of Handel’s Messiah – and that wonderful Hallelujah Chorus that sends our spirits soaring. I truly believe God inspired Handel to take six words from that magnificent chapter 19 of the book of Revelation, surround those words with “Hallelujah’s” and put them to music. “For the LORD God Omnipotent Reigneth!” [KVJ]
And as glorious as the Hallelujah Chorus is to our ears now … I think it is barely a whisper in comparison to what heaven will sound like when the events in Revelation come to pass.
“Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: ‘Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!’ …. I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True …. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: ‘KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.’”
[19:6-7, 11, 16 NIV]
Hallelujah! Amen&Amen