The book of Revelation end the Bible with a bang -- a vision of God's kingdom is described. A kingdom where the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them." That is exciting.
"They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
That might kill my theory that tears of joy will be present in heaven. Oh well, if God's got something better in mind than tears of joy, bring it on!
"It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars -- their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
It's interesting that God wants us to be brave, and not cowardly.
"No longer will there be any curse."
That is a beautiful thought, and interesting. We live with a curse. The ground is cursed. Work is a curse. Mankind is cursed (with sin). The great flaw will be removed. What will that be like? I imagine the change will be a greater sensation than zero gravity is to astronauts. It's hard to imagine life without the gravitational-type pull of sin.
Wow.
On Friday my daughter went to our community mailbox to retrieve the mail. It took her longer than ten minutes to make the three-minute journey, so I got up and went outside. She was pushing a large, 14" x 14" box on the sidewalk with her foot. "Who is it from?" I asked. "Matt somebody..." I knew what it was: copies of the new (old, but remastered) Lust Control album. It was fun to open that and see the final product. It's one of the fun things about a creative job. You can hold the fruit of your labor in your hands.
This blog has just reached the end of the Bible, and the end of a Devotional Bible I was going through as a guide. I wonder what I'll do for the blog from now on...?
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at April 17, 2006 08:42 AMI'd be interested in hearing background on Music stuff that you know. Not like dirt, but unknown or lost stories about LC or other bands. Or Biblical studies of the lyrics to different songs. I was listening to the podcast that Alan from Scaterd Few started last year. He was telling stories about the background of songs, and the history of his bands, or about songs they wrote that were never released. I'm not a huge Scatered Few fan, but I found it fascinating.
Maybe I'm the only person interested in stuff like that, but I love hearing or reading about demos, unreleased songs, forgotten albums, and trivia stories about the music business. I wish more of that stuff would get written about or released on CD/iTunes/whatever. Like the song "Womanfish" by U2. Cool song - but why did they perform it on TV and then never record it?
Posted by: Matt at April 18, 2006 08:54 AMyes - i'd have to agree - i would like to hear stories from "behind the music business". Like a Rock-u-mentary in blog form.
music nerds unite.