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Ready to Worship Season 7, Episode 5 for Friday, February 23, 2018
On this season of Ready to Worship we are examining songs that help to prepare our hearts for worship. In this podcast we are examining the old favorite, Amazing Grace. We will focus primarily on the fourth verse of the song which speaks of singing God’s praise.
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On this season of Ready to Worship we are examining songs that help to prepare our hearts for worship. In this podcast we are examining the old favorite, Amazing Grace.
Since we are focusing on worship, I want to examine the fourth stanza of the song:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years…
bright shining as the sun.
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise…
then when we’ve first begun.
Ten thousand years! What will that be like? That is one hundred times more than the longest one of us will live on this earth. That is ten times longer than Methuselah, the oldest man who ever lived, was on the earth. That is longer than the earth itself has been here by conservative estimates.
As hard as it is to wrap our minds around ten thousand years, it is even harder to comprehend that there will be no less days to sing God’s praise than when we first begun. As hard as it is to comprehend ten thousand years, it is even harder to comprehend eternity. I heard someone describe eternity in this way one time. Imagine a tiny bird taking every grain of sand on earth to the moon one grain at a time. When that little bird got every grain of sand moved, eternity would have just begun. In the words of the song, there would be “no less days to sing God’s praise.” The Apostle Peter expressed it this way: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet. 3:8). Rather than giving an exact measurement, Peter was simply explaining that time in eternity isn’t measured as it is here. As you know, there is no night in heaven (Rev. 21:25). There’s just one eternal day. When we’ve been there ten thousand years… there will be no less days to sing God’s praise than when we first begun.
Having focused on ten thousand years and eternity, let’s now focus on singing God’s praise. When we’ve sung praise for ten thousand years and there’s still no less days, the most amazing thought of all is that we will be no closer to giving God the praise that He deserves. His name is above all blessing and praise (Neh. 9:5). Seeing that eternity will not be long enough to give God the praise that He deserves, don’t you think that we had better go ahead and begin right now?
As we get ready to worship this week, let’s do it in light of eternity. Let’s worship the God who by the gift of His Son made it possible for us to worship Him forever.
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