When Angels Sing Heaven’s Reception Song
Earth people rarely get to hear Angels sing Heaven’s Reception Song. A very few souls have reached the Pearl Gates, then returned with nearly untellable stories of love and welcome .
The Boy Who Heard Heaven’s Reception Song
The machines hummed and clicked in the South African hospital room.
Nurses swished silently in and out, checking the machines, monitoring pulse and blood pressure of the tiny still form on the bed.
Seth was days into coma, malaria making mockery of a normally active 4 year old boy.
His missionary parents took turns keeping bedside vigil, while friends and family around the world kept prayer vigil. The family needed a miracle.
Then, it happened.
Seth woke up, and slowly health returned.
“Dad,” he asked quietly from his bed one day soon after waking up.
“Yes, son?” His dad expected him to ask for a treat, which he would be so glad to give.
“Who was singing?”
“Singing?”
“Yes. The other day there were people right here in my room and they were singing.”
But Dad wasn’t getting it. “Son, no one was singing here.”
“I heard them, Dad. The singing was beautiful. I can still hear them in my head. I wish they’d come back.”
Since Dad now suspected the boy had heard Heaven’s reception choir, he had no wish for them to come back.
“What were they singing?” Dad asked to distract himself from the sad thought of his son so near Heaven’s door.
Seth cocked his head. “I know the song in my head. I can hear the words. But… I can’t sing them.”
And that’s how it was.
Today, as a grown man, he still hears the words. He knows the music. But only in his heart.
Even though he is a gifted singer, he cannot sing the song he heard that day in the hospital, no matter how he wishes for it.
And so he looks forward to someday singing this song with the angels in Heaven.
When Angels sing Heaven’s Reception Song
I want to be there.
While Heaven beckons often, sometimes deeper than usual longings to be there fill our beings.
I’m not sure what the biggest draw is for me. To finally see Jesus? Get the chance to visit with the women of the Bible? Or to sing with the angels?
So while I’m living this life here below, sometimes heaven on earth, but more often earthly with heaven seeming light years away,
I so look forward to learning the angels’ songs.
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