A Hallelujah Poem

I couldn't quite collect my thoughts this morning to complete this post

but celebrating a risen Redeemer is right on time any time of day or night

Hallelujah!

Today, Easter, is a day of great joy for those of the household of faith

yet, also a day of great sorrow as we mourn for those who reject Him...

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, 

the evidence of things not seen.

Heb.11:1

Because He Lives

Christ Arose

 

Have you ever tried to visualize that morning long ago?

The women first, then the disciples, coming to Jesus' tomb while it was still dark!!

to find the stone rolled away!!

 and their Beloved Teacher/Friend/Lord gone!

John 20:1-10

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark,

 Mary Magdalene went to the tomb 

and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 

2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple,

 the one Jesus loved, and said,

 “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, 

and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 

4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.

 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. 

He saw the strips of linen lying there,

 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. 

The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.

 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,

 also went inside. He saw and believed. 

9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 

10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Luke 24:1-8

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning,

 the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 

2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes 

that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.

 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, 

but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

 6 He is not here; he has risen! 

Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 

7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, 

be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 

8 Then they remembered his words.

While some still doubt, some still believe

(Some scorn what some revere)

But someday every eye will see

The One that faith holds dear

No trumpet blast that morn to wake

The world to death’s defeat

But in the hush before daybreak

Faith beheld and believed

Where death and hell were overthrown

Where love and life prevailed

Where angels rolled away the stone

And schemes of darkness failed

Where Jesus’ body had been laid

Where guards stood watch in vain

Where Mary looked and wept, dismayed

At what was not yet plain

…. There, sorrow’s sobs turned into joy

Jesus, mighty to save

(The One that death could not destroy)

Had risen from the grave

The power and the glory of

Mankind’s Saviour and Friend

Covered sin's hopeless debt with love

(Conquered hate's vilest deed with love)

No thought can comprehend

Once and for all our sins He bore

Pray what more do we need

Than to praise Him forevermore

For He is Lord indeed

© Janet Martin