Psalm 61a - I will sing forever

Psalm 61a - I will sing forever

Psalm 61:8a

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, KJV

I my previous post, I was musing on waiting, and the relationship between time and eternity. That got me to thinking about music.  Time is an integral part of music. Not only do you have time signatures and tempos, but the fundamental nature of sound is a movement of a medium (air, string, etc.) in time.  And sounds that have a simple mathematical relationship are harmonics and sound harmonious to the human ear. The question then is, what is the nature of music in heaven?  If there is not time, can there be music?  Or perhaps, in eternity there is still time, but eternal creatures are not trapped to follow the constant pace of time like we are in this world.  

The psalmist exhorts us to sing praises forever, so how can that be?  Maybe in eternity time is more like the other 3 dimensions here.  Think of a washboard road.  Just looking at it you might not notice that the surface of the road is undulating, but when you travel over that road at speed it will make a racket and shake your teeth! If time is like that in eternity, then you could choose to travel in time at a certain pace to make a melody, which means you could travel at a different pace to make a different melody.  How wonderful would that be! 

None of us can really know what eternity is like, but from the descriptions in the Bible, I am confident that it is filled with sounds of praise and worship, singing and shouting and all sorts of other joyful activity. Being forced to live in this world with a constant flow of time, and learning to wait for the appointed time, must train us for something important in the world to come.  It's just wonderful to contemplate what wonders await and to imagine what it will be like to participate in the angelic choir singing holy, holy, holy; holy is the Lord of hosts, for ever, and ever, and ever!