Endless Hallelujah!

I love the lyrics of Matt Redman's song "Endless Hallelujah".  The first time I heard it I cried at the beautiful lyrics (happy tears, of course!)

When I stand before Your throne
Dressed in glory not my own
What a joy I'll sing of on that day
No more tears or broken dreams
Forgotten is the minor key

Everything as it was meant to be

And we will worship, worship
Forever in Your presence we will sing
We will worship, worship You
And endless hallelujah to the King

I will see You as You are
Love You with unsinning heart
And see how much You paid to bring me home
Not till then, Lord, shall I know
Not till then, how much I owe
Everything I am before Your throne

And we will worship, worship
Forever in Your presence we will sing
We will worship, worship You
And endless hallelujah to the King

No more tears, no more shame
No more sin and sorrow ever known again
No more fears, no more pain
We will see You face to face
See You face to face

And we will worship, worship
Forever in Your presence we will sing
We will worship, worship You
And endless hallelujah to the King

And endless hallelujah to the King
We'll sing
And endless hallelujah to the King


Heaven is going to be such an outstandingly jaw-droppingly indescribable place.  I think it is so helpful to be looking forwards to Heaven though as a correct view of eternity will completely change the way we live now.  It is really hard though to imagine and look forward to something that is so unimaginably great.  I love finding songs etc that other people have written that beautifully say a picture of what Heaven will be like and help me to have a glimpse into it.

I love the picture of 'everything as it was meant to be'.  I think that so often in life things feel so wrong, they hurt and they don't feel right.  Things feel unfair and they don't seem like they should be.  Natural disasters, cancer, disease, war, death.  What a comfort that these things aren't right, they aren't natural but they won't be like this forever - everything will be as it was meant to be, as it was created.  Happy, happy days!

The picture of seeing Jesus as he is, in all the fullness of his glory makes my heart sing.  We will see the price that it was for us to be forgiven and then realise just how much we are loved.  A totally unconditional, completely undeserved yet overwhelmingly great love.  Bliss!

'No more tears, no more shame.  No more sin and sorrow ever known again.  No more fears.  No more pain!' These words speak for themselves and maybe the ideas are very familiar - when we think of Heaven maybe we do think of no more tears or pain.  Knowing that some of the things that may plague us and eat us up day in day out will be no more is wonderful.

Having an eternal and Heavenly perspective means whatever this life may bring, whatever we may face we can go through it full of hope.

No more tears.  No more shame.  No more sin.  No more sorrow.  No more fear.  No more pain.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

Death has now been swallowed up in victory!

Whilst I was at contagious last summer as part of one of the seminar's we were looking at death.  It is a hard topic to look at and think about because socially it is such a taboo subject.

Me and the precious little boy

Some people may argue that death is just a natural part of life and that everyone dies and it is normal - it just happens.

Taken just two days before he died

A very special little boy who was very precious and dear to me died just over a year ago aged just 12 years old.  Is death natural?  No.  I can tell you it is not and I think the same would be said of anyone who has had a close friend or family member die.

It feels wrong.  That's because it is.  Death was not part of creation and it will not be part of the new creation.  I long for my friend not to be dead.  I long to see his smile, hear his laugh, just be able to spend more time with him.  What a comfort to know that through Christ death has been swallowed up in victory!


















What a fantastic truth to hold onto.

Death feels so 'stingy'.  It feels so permanent.  It feels so definite, so inevitable.  Like there's no point fighting it as it is going to win eventually, no matter what we do.




Death does not reign victorious, Jesus does!