Hymns: Forever

In this series, I explore some of the very modern worship songs as an old guy 😀.

Select the arrow for my “general intro” (which I’m reusing for all the modern hymns that I explore)

I grew up with rock music, so it’s not such a shocking thing for me to explore these. Back in my earlier years as a Christian, we had the old hymns and some modern choruses that originated in the 1970s charismatic movement. As time went on, I started to prefer the older hymns.
Nowadays, I try to maintain an interest in all Christian music. It’s easy to find “trendy” Christian music annoying, even as a Christian 😀. I don’t know why. But I’m trying to overcome that prejudice. Perhaps the older hymns give us a sense of history, but many of these would have been similar to popular music of their day. So maybe people cringed when they first heard some of these too 😀.

Anyway, today’s hymn is Forever. It’s from 2014.

The song is inspired by John’s vision in Revelation 5:13, focusing on Jesus being glorified “forever and ever”

Revelation 5:14
¹³ Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”

For many, the book of Revelation is a book of puzzles about the future. For me, it’s always been primarily a devotional book. I do remember seeing the movie “The Late Great Planet Earth” shortly before I became a Christian, but I didn’t really think much of it. I was more impressed by a chat that I had with an evangelical Christian outside the cinema (Palace cinema in Cork). His fellowship were using it as an opportunity for evangelism. Over the years, I’ve read many theological viewpoints about the future, but I’m happy to wait and see. One thing that is certain is that Jesus is coming back.

So, what occurred on Calvary secures our future.

Here are some other interesting versions/videos of the song: