We are unworthy, but you are
worthy. Maria Sandberg, Glimpses of Heaven,
1880. and they sang a new song before
the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders.
No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed
from the earth. Revelation 14.3 What is this song which none
but the redeemed can learn? It is the song of the Lamb. Its
theme is, You are worthy, for you were slain, and have redeemed
us to God by your blood. And why can none but the redeemed
learn this song? Angels can say, You are worthy,
but they cannot add, You were slain for us. The unbelieving
and impenitent cannot learn it. Are we learning it? For if we
would join in this song in heaven, we must learn to sing it here
on earth. We must learn to know our own
unworthiness, our own vileness and guilt and danger, and the
worthiness of Jesus. We must learn the price at which
He has redeemed us, even the price of His most precious blood. We must learn to know something
of that love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. Oh, have
we in any measure learned this song? Has our heart been set
in tune to join the heavenly chorus? Is it our happiness to
us to sing the praises of redeeming love? That love which we delight
to meditate upon and celebrate on earth will be our theme of
praise in heaven. Yes, we shall there see the depths
of His unfathomable love, we shall know the riches of that
unsearchable grace which Jesus has bestowed upon us, and we
shall then be more than ever willing to ascribe all worthiness
to the Lamb. We are unworthy, but you are
worthy. This is the one lesson which
we must be ever learning, and we shall only know it fully when
we reach the mansions of the blessed, when we shall see Jesus
as He is, and join in the everlasting song, and crown Him Lord of all.