Spurgeon’s Thoughts on Heavenly Worship

With the Spurgeon book giveaway still going on, I thought that it would be appropriate to post something by Spurgeon. If you read this post all the way through, you will begin to understand why I think Spurgeon has a unique gift. Spurgeon often takes ideas of God’s creation and uses them to communicate the lofty ideals of God and heaven. Being an outdoors guy, I think this is why Spurgeon’s writings seem to speak to me more than most. The quote below is also included in the book We Shall See God.

“Have you never heard the sea roar, and the fulness thereof? Have you never walked by the sea-side, when the waves were singing, and when every little pebble-stone did turn chorister, to make up music to the Lord God of hosts? And have you never in time of storm beheld the sea, with its hundred hands, clapping them in gladsome adoration of the Most High?

Have you never heard the sea roar out his praise, when the winds were holding carnival—perhaps singing the dirge of mariners, wrecked far out on the stormy deep, but far more likely exalting God with their hoarse voice, and praising him who makes a thousand fleets sweep over them in safety, and writes his furrows on their own youthful brow?

Have you never heard the rumbling and booming of ocean on the shore, when it has been lashed into fury and has been driven upon the cliffs? If you have, you have a faint idea of the melody of heaven. It was “as the voice of many waters.”

But do not suppose that it is the whole of the idea. It is not the voice of one ocean, but the voice of many, that is needed to give you an idea of the melodies of heaven. You are to suppose ocean piled upon ocean, sea upon sea,—the Pacific piled upon the Atlantic, the Arctic upon that, the Antarctic higher still, and so ocean upon ocean, all lashed to fury, and all sounding with a mighty voice the praise of God. Such is the singing of heaven.”

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