SING A NEW SONG

PRAYER MOMENT 

Monday 24 November 2014

SING A NEW SONG

                     

Pause. Be still in God’s presence.

Reading: “There in front of the throne they were singing a new song that could only be learnt by those who had been redeemed from the world.” (Revelation14:1-5)

Reflection. We have reached the last week of the church’s year and there is a mood of summing up the whole story of the new life given to us by God in Jesus. The book of Revelation is not an easy read. It is full of symbolic language but its overall message is clear. It about the final triumph of “the lamb who was slain.” People from ‘every nation and language’ would ‘sing a new song.’ People without hope would find a new meaning. The invitation to ‘sing a new song’ comes from the Old Testament (Psalm 149) and the widow who placed “all she had to live on” (Luke 21:1-4) was an OT woman. So there is a real sense of fulfilment of the longings deep in the hearts of people now realised in the coming of Jesus.   

Prayer. Lord, help us to ‘sing a new song’ each day in our living out the joy of your coming into our lives. Amen.  

David Harold-Barry SJ