Day Sixty-Two: Revelation 5-9

And they sang a new song with these words:

   “You are worthy to take the scroll
      and break its seals and open it.
   For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God
      from every tribe and language and people and nation.
   And you have caused them to become
      a Kingdom of priests for our God.
      And they will reign on the earth.”

Then I looked again, and I heard the voices of thousands and millions of angels around the throne and of the living beings and the elders.  And they sang in a mighty chorus:

   “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered—
      to receive power and riches
   and wisdom and strength
      and honor and glory and blessing.”

And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They sang:

   “Blessing and honor and glory and power
      belong to the one sitting on the throne
      and to the Lamb forever and ever.”

And the four living beings said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the Lamb. (5.9-14)

If we can get a picture of what really lasts in the end, then maybe we can decide what we should be investing our lives in.  When you see what remains when everything else is stripped away, it causes you to re-evaluate what is really important.

In the future, what will really last?  What is really important?  The book of Revelation in general and this text, specifically gives us the answer: there is much more to life than the here and now.  In fact, the here and now is insignificant to the vastness of eternity.  And in eternity what will remain, what will go on forever is worship.  

That should put things into perspective.  Popularity – it will not go on forever.  Success – it will not go on forever.  Money – it will not go on forever.  Worship of God will go on forever and ever.  But it is bigger than that.  Not just worship. God means to have worship from every people group in the world.    

Do you want to know the reason why we do missions?  It is because there are places in the world where worship does not yet exist.  There are places all over the world where God’s name has not been made famous.  There are people in the world that do not yet know the glory of God’s forgiveness.  

And so the implication of this truth doesn’t take a lot of stretching to see: the invitation is for people to stand up and be His hands and feet in His victory… people to share in the joy of his victory, going and sharing the message as more and more people from all over the world come to the worship our great and glorious king.

Will you join him in his mission today?  Will you give your life to his mission in the future?