Your Voice From Heaven--September 5, 2010

I. Readings
Psalms 103, 150, 117, 139
Job 25:1-6; 27:1-6
Revelation 14:1-7, 13
Matthew 5:13-20

II. Selections
Psalm 150:3-4
Praise him with trumpet sound;
      praise him with lute and harp!
Praise him with tambourine and dance;
      praise him with strings and pipe!

Job 26:14
“…These are indeed but the outskirts of [God’s] ways;
      and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
      But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
[Job, in response to his critics]

Revelation 14:2-3a
And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.

Matthew 5:14
“…You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. … ” [Jesus to his disciples and the crowds on the mountain]

III. Meditation

Your voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters;
your voice from heaven, like the sound of booming thunder;
the loud thunder of your power, who can understand?

A voice from heaven, like the sound of harpists playing;
a voice from heaven, like the song of harpists singing;
playing, singing praises to you as they bow before the throne.

Your voice from heaven, like the sound of Jesus speaking,
speaking of a light that shines and that cannot be concealed,
speaking of hilltop city that will always be revealed.

Glory, glory, glory to you,
praise with pipe and praise with reed,
praise with tambourine and trumpet,
praise with dance and praise with deed.