p. 9 | A Grand Concert

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1903

A Grand Concert

WHAT a blessed concert that will be when the mountains and the hills break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field clap their hands in applause! Who would not like to be there to hear and see? “But,” says some wise objector, “that is all figurative; it is not meant to be taken literally, because the mountains and the hills can not sing, and the trees can not clap their hands; indeed, they have no hands to clap.” O, foolish wisdom, which knows so much that it shuts out all knowledge! Even so the disciples of Jesus wondered what he meant when he said that he should rise from the dead. They were sure that his words could not be taken literally, because they thought they knew that he could not die, and rise again. But they were mistaken. If instead of “reasoning” as they did, they had believed his words, they would have been saved much shame and confusion. Suppose that instead of disputing with the Word of the Lord, we allow it to teach us. He says that the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and therefore we believe that they will do so, and that we shall hear them. We shall then learn something about music, which the greatest composers of earth can not teach us.

There is light which human eyes can not see, and there are many sounds which human ears are too dull to hear; but God both sees and hears. When we become so spiritual that we are worthy to have spiritual bodies, then we shall be able to see and hear things that have never yet come within man's comprehension. These things are made known to us by the Holy Spirit; let us therefore yield ourselves to him, that we may be made wholly spiritual, and thus be able to attain true wisdom, the wisdom of God. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.”—Present Truth.