“How could we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?” (Ps. 137:4) is also a question of time: How can we sing kingdom songs in the now? The chords will often be minor, sung with weeping. But in Christ, we are already singing in the future as well. The choir that is the body of Christ is the edge-point of history such that even the new song of Revelation (5:9; 14:3) will be a reprise. We’ll sing motifs we learned in history. We’ll bring chords with us into the kingdom.
