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Themes Perfection of Heaven MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT "This is the final cut. Men and women, give it your best! Let the tape roll" ordered the conductor on the high stand. My heart pounded as the sound engineers pressed the buttons and the music began. Over 350 high school students stood statue still on risers on the huge auditorium stage. The students represented choirs from seven schools who had come together to sing and make a recording. The schools had hired a University professor to direct the music. He was easy to pick out of the crowd. He held the baton and his head was completely bald and shiny. We practiced and practiced all morning. We were about to make a recording of "The Hallelujah Chorus" from "Handel's Messiah." For three hours the bald man swung his arms and made faces telling us when and how loud to sing. Seventy-five young men singing the tenor part surrounded me.. Next to me stood Brian, a very large young man. He held the music for us both in his right hand. I stood on his left. I stretched to see the music. The conductor was red faced with excitement as the orchestra music began. At the thrust of his baton and beat of the music, 350 voices burst into song together. The volume and harmony made my spine tingle. I thought, "What will it be like to sing with 1000's of people in Heaven.?" The music blared, the baton waved, the director smiled, and everyone sang their loudest and best. Measure after measure we sang our way through the pages of music. Finally, the music thundered toward the end and we sang, "And we shall reign forever, and ever, and ever! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! .......... (Pause). Three hundred and forty-nine voices halted to a crisp silence. One lone tenor bellowed on by Himself, "HALLELUJAH!" Suddenly, I could feel my face getting warm. The bald man threw his baton across the room and glared down at me. "I can't believe it!" he screamed. "You blew it. It was perfect. You ruined the whole thing."
Everyone stopped and stared. I mumbled an apology as I glowed red with shame. Although he did not speak kindly, he was right. One mistake does ruin something that is perfect.
Heaven is a perfect place. The singing is perfect and no one makes mistakes. Even more important, there cannot be one mistake or sin in Heaven. God is perfect and pure. He cannot have sin where He lives. No wonder the Bible says, "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life" (Revelation 21:7). Even though you have sinned, God still wants you in Heaven. The Bible says you must have a time in your life when all your sins are forgiven. This is possible because, "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sins" (1 John 1:7).
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