How can I keep from singing

How Can I Keep From Singing

 

(Song by Enya- Hymn)

 

My life goes on in endless song

Above earth's lamentations,

I hear the real, though far-off hymn

That hails a new creation.

 

 

Through all the tumult and the strife

I hear it's music ringing,

It sounds an echo in my soul.

How can I keep from singing?

 

 

While though the tempest loudly roars,

I hear the truth, it liveth.

And though the darkness 'round me close,

Songs in the night it giveth.

 

 

No storm can shake my inmost calm,

While to that rock I'm clinging.

Since love is lord of heaven and earth

How can I keep from singing?

 

 

When tyrants tremble in their fear

And hear their death knell ringing,

When friends rejoice both far and near

How can I keep from singing?

 

 

In prison cell and dungeon vile

Our thoughts to them are winging,

When friends by shame are undefiled

How can I keep from singing?

 

 

 

 

Revelation 15:2-4 (New Living Translation)

 

2 I saw before me what seemed to be a glass sea mixed with fire. And on it stood all the people who had been victorious over the beast and his statue and the number representing his name. They were all holding harps that God had given them. 3 And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:

 

“Great and marvelous are your works,

O Lord God, the Almighty.

Just and true are your ways,

O King of the nations.

4 Who will not fear you, Lord,

and glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before you,

for your righteous deeds have been revealed.”

 

This Saturday, I left the house early to go to class in Lynchburg,

so that I would have an opportunity to do my daily devotions,

take some photos and go to the flea market before class.

 

As I was going up the mountain towards the Peaks, about 645am,

I could see that it might be a beautiful sunrise, so I timed myself

so that I could stop at the Peaks to take some pictures.

 

What a beautiful sunrise!!! I took quite a few pictures

 

As I continued on, I stopped at the flea market, I found

a CD that was a tribute to Enya, the new age singer from Ireland.

I popped it into my player and the last song seemed like a hymn,

so I started it over to listened to it several times, it was so beautiful.

I looked up lyrics up when I got home, and yes, it was was an old

hymn. I found a picture of the sunrise and put the title on it.

and included the lyrics in the description. It is a very bittersweet

song, about the end days and the destruction of this world as

we know it, but because of the singers belief of our salvation

through Jesus, she able to sing because of the joy, knowing that

the worries and troubles of this world were going away and a new

world in Christ was coming.

 

As we go through life, and things become more difficult, health

fails, loved ones die, and we grow older and less able to do

what we used to do, God still reminds us of His promise

to us through Christ, and when we see His presence all around

us, how can we keep from singing praises to HIM, who has

set us from the prison of our sins and we are undefiled from

the shame of sins and declared clean and able to enjoy the

presence of God forever.

 

Amen

 

Done