Anticipation

Sometimes people ask me what my favorite movie or TV show is, or maybe what my favorite dessert or breakfast food is. I always cheat and say that it depends on the category, or that I just can’t decide, or try to explain how it is unethical to compare Star Wars and Harry Potter for some abstract reason(s), thus rendering me incapable of choosing one over the other (yes, yes I do think about it way too much). But before you judge, you’ve cheated, too. I’ve seen your eyes. Everyone cheats at some point. However, there is one exception to my indecisiveness.

If you ask me what my favorite YouTube video is, I will probably answer before you can finish the question. My favorite YouTube video is less than two minutes long, and it shows a young woman, not quite 30 years old, testing out a hearing device after a rather expensive ($30,000) medical procedure that would allow her to hear clearly and crisply for the first time in her life. Before I tell you why it is my favorite video on YouTube, I really want you to watch it for yourself.

This is why I absolutely love this video and have watched it probably 20 or 30 times:  I earnestly believe this will be our reaction when we hear our Father’s voice calling us Home. When we, the sheep, hear the Shepherd’s cry for His people. When the Bridegroom calls His Bride into eternity.

This woman couldn’t hear anything for more than 10,000 days. Nothing. No Frank Sinatra. No Wiz Khalifa. No George Strait. Silence. Now she hears with the clarity you and I have. I think that on that Day when God calls us Home, when we hear His voice, all the things we’ve heard in our lives will seem like silence. Everything we’ve ever heard, from the most horrifying noises to the most eloquent poems will instantly pale in comparison to the love, the passion, the jealousy, the mercy, and the grace of our Redeemer’s voice.