Arena

"He who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence," Revelation 7:15.

You know how in the movies there's this marvelous, glorious scene where everybody marches into the vast arena after the unbearable troubles they've been through? Where the vast crowd thunders cheers as the peoples enter? Sure! And if it's a really good movie, even we in the audience feel the impetus to stand and cheer it on, too. Well, that's the Revelation scene - except that it's real, though future to us. And except that it is God who's being cheered on. And who are the immense shouting crowds? It's all the people whom God brought through all the troubles of the world, through death itself. All who washed their dress clothes whiter than white in the blood of Jesus. And what's God doing there? God's sheltering them all.

We speak with a brother or sister today about security in God's handiwork, we speak of Jesus' sacrifice for us. And, together, we raise our hands, our voices, in praise to Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.