Psalm 98 - A Musical Psalm

If I were an artist I would paint a picture of this song. Hmmmm - maybe I could make a Psalm 98 quilt. It would have:

• People singing
• Joy bursting forth in their songs
• Harps being played
• Trumpets
• Cornets
• Waves of the sea dancing
• Floods of water clapping their hands
• Hills filled with joy

How could you ever visually represent that?  But I can see it in my mind.

It would be a day on the California coast near Santa Rosa. It would be one of those days when the air is quiet and warm yet the breakers are crashing on the shore. There are just enough clouds in the sky that you see rays of the sun stretching forth in all directions. A harpist is sitting alone on the beach - a woman with long blond hair, a white flowing dress - the harp is golden with a hint of sunlight reflecting. On the cliff above her are two men dressed in formal black. We are seeing them from the side, their trumpets raised pointing toward the sea.

A choir of men and women are on the shore off to the far left. Their music rises from them and begins to dance and swirl first around the woman, then up and around the trumpets and then meander's out among the waves. The waves form hands and clap to the beat as the music intensifies before it rises and fades in the rays of the sun.

The words are simple: 

Hallelujah. 

Joy is ours. 

Thanks be to God!  

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the Earth; 

make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.