The next entry for my Blog is Hymn of Heaven, which was written Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham, Bill Johnson, and Chris Davenport. It was first released June 25, 2021. A link to Phil Wickham singing the song is at the bottom of the Blog.
Hymn of Heaven
How I long to breathe the air of Heaven
Where pain is gone and mercy fills the streets
To look upon the One who bled to save me
And walk with Him for all eternity
There will be a day when all will bow before Him
There will be a day when death will be no more
Standing face to face with He who died and rose again
Holy, holy is the Lord
And every prayer we prayed in desperation
The songs of faith we sang through doubt and fear
In the end, we’ll see that it was worth it
When He returns to wipe away our tears
Oh, there will be a day when all will bow before Him
There will be a day when death will be no more
Standing face to face with He who died and rose again
Holy, holy is the Lord
And on that day, we join the resurrection
And stand beside the heroes of the faith
With one voice, a thousand generations
Sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain”
And on that day, we join the resurrection
And stand beside the heroes of the faith
With one voice, a thousand generations
Sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain”
“Forever He shall reign”
So let it be today we shout the hymn of Heaven
With angels and the saints, we raise a mighty roar
Glory to our God who gave us life beyond the grave
Holy, holy is the Lord
So let it be today we shout the hymn of Heaven
With angels and the saints, we raise a mighty roar
Glory to our God who gave us life beyond the grave
Holy, holy is the Lord
Holy, holy is the Lord
Holy, holy is the Lord
Many times, I have heard people say, that person is such a breath of fresh air; meaning the person brings light into a challenging situation. The writer of this song starts by saying they long for the breath of fresh air that only heaven can bring. No matter how good or bad things are for us today, heaven will far surpass all of our hopes and dreams. It is a place where there is no pain or sorrow and everywhere we look is perfection. We get to spend time with Jesus, who is the one who died for us so we could spend forever with him. That day will come when we will bow down to him in reverence as well as thankfulness for what he did for us. Some of the greatest things in heaven, other than time with our savior, will be that there will be no more death, no more sadness, no more suffering, no more tears of sadness, and we will be reunited with friends and family who had accepted Christ and passed on before us. Every time we experience this joy, we will be thanking Jesus for dying for us and reuniting us with our loved ones.
It is challenging to talk about anything after thinking about the above, it all will be so so wonderful. The problem is that we let the challenges of our life take over our daily thoughts again and again. It all seems to be an act of desperation. Part of the problem is that we do no pray enough, which leads us to forget about God and his role in our lives. We are told in 1st Thessalonians 5:16-17, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”. We need to thank God for everything he has done for us in our lives. We should also pray for the needs of our families, our friends, our enemies, our country, and the entire world. All of these are God’s creations, he put all of us here. We sometimes give up hope after praying for so long, it is almost as if our desperate pleas are not being heard. We maybe go to church and sing the songs of glory, and hear the strong message of God’s promises. I love to listen to songs about Jesus and faith on the radio and I sing my heart out. After I leave the church building and after I get out of my car, I seem to lose some of that joy I was just experiencing; I let life take away my joy. As the song says, it will all be worth our pain, our suffering, and our frustration with life. The day will come when Jesus, the one who died for us, will wipe away all of our tears and fill our hearts with joy as we begin life in our new home. We are told this in the book of Revelation 21:4, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” This promise is for those who have accepted Jesus as their personal savior.
The day that Jesus comes in the clouds, the people who have accepted him will rise into heaven to join all others who accepted him and died before us. We will be part of the resurrection of millions of others. We will all of a sudden be side by side with some of the greatest people of faith who ever lived. Many of these will be people we have read about in our bibles, others will be some of the great leaders of faith that came after the time of Jesus, and most will be people who are regular everyday people who accepted Christ as their personal savior. We will be standing with people who might have lived since mankind was first created, all of the God’s faithful will be together for the first time. This entire gathering of the saved, which will be larger than we could ever imagine, will start singing Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Jesus, the sacrificial lamb, finally gets to hear all of his family sing praises to him and the father.
Wow, I am not sure I can even imagine the billions of voices from people of all eras of time and representing the entire earth singing at one time. The angels will be also be joining in as the music reaches a crescendo that we ever thought possible. What better way to honor our savior, who is the definition of holiness. Holy, holy is the Lord indeed.