Rev.14:3 – They sang as it were a new song before the throne…

We sing a new song because everything has been made new in our lives. To a Christian that has learned the joy of renewal and walking in the Spirit the Lord is continually making all things new, we can actually experience a life where He is making us new everyday. He gives us a new heart filled with love for Him that is renewed everyday. He places a love for His church and the written word of God in our hearts which are the tools the Holy Spirit uses to make us new again and again. Jonathan Edwards spoke of this renewal in his Thanksgiving sermon of 1740. Check this quote out.

By this work of God in renewing the heart, the man that is the subject of it becomes a new creature or is a new man, as it is often said in Scripture. And therefore no wonder that his song is new: for we are told that “old things are passed away” and “all things become new with him”. [The] hearts of the redeemed are new. He has a new spirit put within him. Their natures are new. In some sense their bodies are new. They have new eyes. They are renewed in the whole man. They are said to be “a new lump,” having put away “the old leaven”. They are newborn babes. They have new garments, for their filthy garments are taken away and they are clothed with change of raiment. And they have a new name. “He that overcometh I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.” “I will write upon him my new name.”

I often think of my first Thanksgiving that I experienced as a Christian. Parris and I were away from home going to school in California and we were invited to an elderly farmer’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. This family was old school Pentecostal (the farmer’s wife’s hair bun gave it away). The farmer was filled with joy having a newly converted hippy couple to their home seemed quite unusual. Their adult children had all moved away and they were happy to have some company that Thanksgiving. The main thing I remember from that meal was the farmer repeating, “thank you Jesus” over and over again. I had new eyes on that Thanksgiving, and the Lord was filling my heart with a new song as His work of renewal deepened in me. What did I come away with that Thanksgiving Day. Well…. 52 years later I am still saying “thank you Jesus” for all He has done in my life.