The morning is beautiful here – looks like it’ll be perfect weather for Resurrection Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It’s as if the whole earth is rejoicing in the glory and power of it’s Creator, just as I am rejoicing in His unfathomable love in reaching down and rescuing me from the power of death and sin!!! As one of my all-time favorite Easter hymns proclaims:
Christ the Lord is risen today; Alleluia!
Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!
Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once He died, our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where’s thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!
Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids Him rise, Alleluia!
Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!
Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!
1Co 15:54, 55, 57 – “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? … But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
ALLELUIA!!!! Praise the Lord!!!
The morning was the same here in WV too! Glorious! We sang that hymn on our way to church that morning, and at church too! Glorious!!! What makes that song so thrilling is the way it eludes to so many Scriptures! The other thing that makes it so thrilling is its triumphant melody – what a match!
Amen Amanda! He is Risen! Earlier today, I had an opportunity to explain to a couple young children how that baptism is a symbol of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior. In Christ, we who were dead in trespasses and sin have been quickened through the blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son! The Lord is Risen indeed – blessed be His name forevermore.