Sometimes a joyful noise…
…is a whisper.
Do you ever find your voice, joined with others in worship of our Living God, hushed in order to listen in on the mulitude of joy? That multitude… joined voices, sound waves, words, notes… an intermingling miracle of backgrounds and circumstances that couldn’t be more different from one another, unified in exaltation of the One who has touched, healed, redeemed each of those backgrounds and sets of circumstances.
A little glimmer, just a glimpse, of One Day:
“Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!’ And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: ‘Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!’ ” Revelation 5:11-13
“Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.” Psalm 98:4
Glorious.
