“Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple, free from other service, for they were on duty day and night”(1 Chronicles 9:33).
It was so ordained in the temple that the sacred chant should never cease. The singers were free from other service to continually chant praise to the LORD, whose mercy endures forever. This musical ministry went on endlessly day and night. As God’s mercy ceased not to rule either by day or by night, neither did music hush its sacred ministry.
There is a wonderful lesson in this for us today. As sinners saved by God’s grace, we are constant debtors to God’s mercy and love. God’s praise is constant in heaven, therefore, our praise should be constant on earth.
The LORD is ever deserving of our praise and thanksgiving because of what He is in Himself. He is omnipotent — that is “all power” meaning God can do anything. God is omniscient — meaning God is “all knowing.” He knows the past, present, and future. God is omnipresent — meaning He is “all present.” His divine presence encompasses the entire universe who He created. These are some of God’s great attributes.
Also, let us not forget His great and mighty acts of creation, His protective care of His people, His goodness and mercy to us, His transcendent act of redemption, and the blessing derived therefrom.
David wrote, “He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God, Many will see and hear and put their trust in the LORD” (Psalm 40:3). Do we not something to sing and shout about and praise God for today and every day? Can we not weave a song out of our past deliverances, our present joys, or our future hopes? Let us be stirred up to begin this glorious Lord’s day with an anthem and a psalm and a song of sanctified joy and gladness.
“The Lamb is the light thereof.”—Revelation 21:23.
Let us contemplate the Lamb of God. as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus.
Oh! His manifested glory. We were poor and wretched, stained with sin, but what a transformation! Oh! what a manifestation! the exalted Lamb. Whatever there may be of effulgent splendor, the King of kings, and Lord of lords!
Let us revisit the Cross again. Come, to Calvary again, and consider Jesus who left the splendors of heaven and despised the ignominy and shame of that Roman cross and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross to procure our great and wonderful salvation that we revel in.