In the book of Revelation we read that a new song is sung in heaven that only the redeemed can learn (14:3). Likewise, there is a sense in which we are all learning the song we will sing for eternity, but we are still out of tune in the flesh and still tone-deaf because of the world. In this proclamation of our hearts, we are trusting that our God is the God who hears, and that our singing is not desperate futility, but the longing of love. Through such singing we participate in Christ’s ongoing defeat of the powers and principalities. It may seem foolish and inconsequential, perhaps as
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